One of the things I love about spring and summer is that my home opens up and becomes about 100 times larger.  I like creating little spaces for reading, chatting….drinking a cup of tea.

This morning, I dropped the kiddos off at school, grabbed my coffee, my seeds and a few seedlings and sat out on the front porch to just ponder the garden.  Unfortunately, it was really chilly, and I needed a blanket.  But I enjoyed seeing the house from a new perspective, one that I haven’t seen for some time.

These chairs will only hang out here for the next few months.  When it becomes a bit more dry they will head out to the patio for the duration of the summer, and this area will find a whole new purpose.

Until then, it will be my spring shelter from drizzle, take my coffee in the morning with a blanket hang out.

Do you look for different ways to reinvent your spaces?  What are you changing up for spring?

xo, Jay

A promise of spring arrived yesterday.    Like a good and loyal friend, I can count on the arrival of the seed catalogs to cheer me up, remind me that the sky is not always this cold and gray on Wilbur Road.   Things will grow and change and color will return to the landscape.  I may have to wait another 4 months to dig my hands into the dirt, and that’s OK.  By the time Mother’s Day arrives  I will be plenty eager and the conditions just might be favorable enough for planting.

In the meantime, I will spend a few moments, here and there… dreaming and puttering through the catalogs as they arrive.

Thanks for stopping by!

Jay