I believe it's important to teach our children about the natural world in which we live. Going back to our roots, I like to show my children about rain harvesting, composting, planting flowers/vegetable gardens and making floral bouquets. Our tulip garden is in full bloom and looks like candy from a candy store. The colours tulips bring into everyday life fills our lips with smiles and our hearts with delight. Hayden (my son) planted our tulip bulbs last fall using all organic matter and its wonderful to watch him pick bouquets for our flower cart permanently parked outside our front yard. Passer-byers pick a bunch and put money into Hayden's bucket. It's a joy for us not only to learn about the earth's splenders, but to take pleasure in knowing our home grown flowers are also bringing delight to all the Happy Valley locals. It's so important to come together as a community, sharing candy coloured flowers is such a lovely thought. I always think about my clientele and imagine the "receiver" of the bouquet, imagine their smile; brings joy into my life.
And then back to the real world as I watch Hayden take his plastic sword to my ranunculus' (oh my ranunculus', such a beautiful addition to my flower garden, my pride and joy), snip, slash....... I guess we can all guess what he had done to my ranunculus'..... 3 year olds!