Lilacs

Miss Kim

 Lessons from my garden.

Inspired by my friend Kim Kotecki, who takes simple delight in finding good around her.

LILACS

These are Miss Kim Korean Lilacs, a gift from my husband because I was missing my American Lilac bush, I had in our side yard for 15 years.

Miss Kim

Lilacs bring me fond memories of my Aunt Dorothy, her front yard was hedged by lilacs. I spent many hours as a child playing beneath them, napping under them and collecting spring time bouquets from them. My mom even reminds me I ate them once.

Then growing up I had some under my bedroom window. I remember the smell of lilacs floating in on a warm evening or after a spring rain. 

They leave me feeling at peace, safe, surrounded in live and hopeful.

Last year as our world slowly began to disintegrate at the seams, I tied crocheted heart on the lilac bush in New Brighton, where we were living. A sign of hope to others passing near.

My friend Renee Schwartz has made me lilac tea, along with dandelion cooks that are amazing. My friend Julie Bautch Ackerman has always let me pick bouquets from her bush to share with my preschoolers, when our center was next to her house.

What flower invokes these feelings in you?

#lilacs, #wonderhunt, #lessonsfrommygarden

American Lilac

American Lilac