Thoughts from The Greenhouse

It has been far too long since I sat down in this online thoughtful spot.  This has not been for want of thoughts, or places to think them in, but rather for want of direction for this little page.  It has stayed consistent to recording the same place for a year, it has travelled around a continent, across an ocean,  and returned home.  But, as both BlossomArts and I moved over the past months to a new home, The Greenhouse, it seemed only fitting that the Thoughtful Spot should move there too.
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​Green is the grass / and the leaves on the trees;
​Green is the smell / of a country breeze...

-  Mary O'Neill, What is Green?
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​The Greenhouse is a happy little place with a green kitchen big enough to house friends, abundant cuttings rooting on the windowsills and a potted garden in the back that looks out over an expanse of grass and old trees, and is valiantly trying to provide me with herbs despite a few too many hours in the summer sun.  There is a heavy summer rain falling as I write, and yet again I am called to marvel at God's graciousness in providing this little house, for among it's many cheery virtues, it has wide windows that let the sunshine in, and deep eves that allow those windows to remain open even when it's pouring.  So today I sit at an indoor thoughtful spot for once, at a green table in a green kitchen with the sweet scent of rain on earth that needs it wafting through the wide open windows.

​​Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too...
There blooms exotic beauty, warm and snug, 
While the winds whistle ​and the snows descend

​- William Cowper, The Garden
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​It is my prayer that at this kitchen table strangers will become friends, and that from here BlossomArts will grow, from here our cheery gatherings of herb craft will be recorded, and from here many future Thoughtful Spots will be written.  And so, while I'm quite sure there will be occasional wanderings to Thoughtful Spots far and wide, I am delighted to be able to welcome you today to The Greenhouse.  Come and be welcome, herbal chums! 
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​...a great welcome makes a merry feast.

 - Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors
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