Fading Garden...

Today I went out in the late afternoon sun and took some snapshots of my sun-dappled, fading garden in the woods. It gradually expanded over the summer with a little, U-shaped stone path sweeping through it. And I've gradually added to it here and there. Adding more rocks that I unearthed. Adding more plants...some bought from the nearby nursery, some from Mum. And next year it will be even more glorious...in my mind anyways...now that I have a little more knowledge about what I'm doing. I tend to it almost every morning, pulling back the fallen leaves from around my plants. Picking off slugs. I won't even tell you how many I've, um, destroyed...through, uh...let's just say, various methods. My tiny garden in the woods is my little sanctuary though. And in futility, as I try to keep it free of the fallen leaves, Hub gently laughs...because another leaf swiftly falls to take its place. I know it's a losing battle in the end. But I'm holding on for as long as I can...trying to maintain it. Perhaps that's why I felt compelled to capture it in a bunch of photos today...to look back on in the wintertime and tide me over on the bleakest and whitest of long winter days.

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P.S. The first photo is in "soft focus"...I was messing around with it in Photoshop...so that's why it looks a bit blurry, but I thought it also made it look a little magical!

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P.P.S. Hub and I are heading to a little birthday party this weekend for some sweet nieces...and I did a little bit of craftyness for them...I'll share next week, hopefully!

Wishing you a lovely weekend!