A Monastery Garden Tour

Oh where has the time gone...I started this blog post July 1!  Pitiful isn't it??? I have some photos to share with you.

We are so blessed to be surrounded by an abundance of beauty here in our cloister solitude. We are soaking in the rains the Lord has generously sent to water the earth making it fertile and fruitful...

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Sisters are busy mowing the grass

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the yellow and zucchini squash plants love all this rain!

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Here is what is left of the brush pile. It needs to be pushed together and burned again.

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These little rabbits are practically tame - we can barely scare them out of the flower beds. They even jump into the flower pots of impatiens, drag the plant out and take it to a safe place to eat for lunch!

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flowersblog

Beautiful

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smtgardenblog

Monastery front entrance

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plaza blog

Plaza for guests and retreatants

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Home to many generations of blue birds

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In the midst of our clay soil woes we are blessed with an abundance of sandstone...very pretty. In the winter months one can climb the creek beds and "harvest" all kinds of beautiful rock. Of course, one can harvest rocks at any time of the year but I like to avoid close encounters with snakes, ticks, spiders and poison ivy.  This year Christie expanded her flower garden.

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 Sr. John Mary created a small rock garden by the trellis.  One advantage of a rock garden is that rocks don't need to be watered!