Lessons From The Humble Garden...

Nature often teaches us life's greatest lessons. I learnt a few over the past week.

• What's true today may not be so tomorrow.
• It's important to be more aware of our surroundings - not just as something you watch and admire from afar, but as something you literally come into physical contact with.
• People must not be classified. Human beings are way too complex to fall under classifications.
• For every 5 annoying parts of a person, there would be at least 1 pleasant one. Turn a blind eye over the 5, and the 6th will get us going.

Yeah, nature taught me all that. I have no inkling how - but it did.

Grandness that has been near me for the past year, but which I only really noticed today

This tree, with its amazing "regrowth" in the past week, is a "teacher" in its own right

And yet, to keep us grounded to the realities of life, this too exists in the same surroundings

Tweaking Twigs...

I love twigs.

I think they’re the most beautiful part of a tree/plant. I love them in all their forms, and at all times. The ones that lie at my feet whenever I go for my morning walks (and which later end up on the dashboard of my car), ones that often give me painful scratches on my arm whenever I park my car too close to them in a corner lot of my office carpark (which is surrounded by plants of all sorts), and that which I find still attached to trees in all their splendour :)

Though I must admit – I do practise a little favouritism where twigs are concerned - I have a weakness for the dark, coffee-brown-coloured ones :)