Miniature Wonders!

  There is an amazingly beautiful world beneath our feet.  Gardening and hiking both can bring us closer to that incredible place...the "Land of Miniature".  This is a place where things often go unnoticed because we are too busy with what is far easier to see...the large, flashy world at eye level.  It only takes a moment, however, to discover and fall in love with the wee things that are trod upon during our day to day meanderings. 

  A few days back, the garden beckoned and I heeded the call.  There were some twenty or so tomato plants that were in dire need of a larger growing spot than the tiny seeding pots.  The shovel was put into action as I spaded up yet another garden plot.  While doing this, I could not help but "go around" a few of the tiny weeds that had sprung up recently.  I am sure Pop would have thought I was daft for leaving weeds where tomatoes should grow but Mom would have been tickled pink.  The "weeds" were what Mom called Little Blue Eyes and they always held a special spot with her.  She had told me several times that when she was a wee child, she was allowed to pick those "flowers" but not the ones in the gardens.  She was even given a tiny vase just for her special flowers.  Later, I picked the wee things for Mom.  She used the same tiny vase to hold them on the kitchen windowsill.  My kids did the same for me.  As moms, we never grew tired of receiving bouquets of weeds.

  I am sure that eventually, the Blue-eyed Grass Flowers will fall to the hoe but, for now, they shall stay in between the tomato plants.  Hopefully, they will go to seed and scatter themselves willy-nilly throughout the garden.  I am good with a few "wildflowers" here and there amongst the veggies.  They make life interesting.  I do not fit in with the well-organized folks who have to have everything perfect.  A little bit wild and wonderful is more my style!  Grow, little flowers!  Be happy!