Green Love

And now for another edition of "Things I Love About Where I Live" number 4,872.

These aunties bring their own garden produce to early-morning market, laying it out upon tarps on the ground. In the evenings they relocate to busy city sidewalks, peddling greens to folks trekking home for supper. I love small-garden auntie vegetables! I love them at the market, I love them off the street. I love buying straight from the hands that grew it in little plots at the base of the mountain! I love that this place has a taste for endless varieties of leafy greens!

This garden is behind our apartment complex, a three minute walk from our door.

Greens show up like this on the lunch table.

There's a well behind the garden. We discovered it last week, and one of the grandpas we know (his grandkid goes to the same school as Titus) told me all about the well, and the Amazon River, and Russian-US relations, and washed Mike's hands.

counting the graces

thank you Father for

bright green spring buds on trees outside the window

sunshine, cold blustery wind, and a happy song in my head

Jon &  Mike playing in the mud

multicolored leaves on the ground --  brick red, goldenrod, emerald

Titus happily folding class washcloths at school

scored a babysitter for Friday night

early morning exercise followed by peaceful shower