HNT#14 in celebration of World naked gardening day

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.- E.F. Schumacher

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.- Abraham Lincoln

Last week Os asked us to do our HNT pics with some relation to the world naked gardening day which was last saturday. Well it just so happens last saturday I took the time to do a little gardening of sorts. I dug a few holes to plant some trees on my almost 5 acres. As I was digging I happened to think how nicely that would fit in with this weeks HNT.....(that and the fact that I had nothing else to offer up in regards to gardening). So here I am digging a hole in which a small oak tree will be planted very soon. True it will be years before I can sit under this beautiful tree and enjoy its shade. Just like so many things in life its not an instant gratification. So many things now days are and we appreciate those things less than things that it takes time to nurture.....anything worth anything in this world for the most part requires patients. And how we tend to it during its early years leads it to be what it is later in life. One day these tiny holes I dug will be covered in leaves and grass and be the most coveted part of my yard during the hot summer months. Until then I can only nurture them to provide the best hope for the young trees.



And of course no HNT would be Chelle correct without the pics I did not use but did use. Chelle will be famous for this one day and I am doing my part to help her haha.


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