garden. Some plants quietly fade while others bloom for the very first time. There seems to be a harmony in it all—a gentle reminder that every season has its purpose.

Sometimes we need to step outside our day-to-day routines to discover a fresh thought, a new insight, or unexpected inspiration. This week's video shares a tour through four beautiful Boulder gardens during the Boulder Garden Tour, sponsored by Garden to Table.

It isn't the absence of challenges that shapes a beautiful life—it is the quiet intention to keep creating beauty anyway.

One thing is for sure—life is not perfect.

A variety of challenges can easily get in our way, sometimes leaving us feeling as if we are failing or not getting the most out of the life we long for. The truth is, we are often on the brink of discovering a deeper beauty… one that simply asks us to dig a little deeper.

What has your attention in the week ahead?

What do you want more of? And perhaps, what do you want less of?

From a simple gardening perspective...

If you have a potted plant soaking up the summer sunshine, what could you do this week to make it even more beautiful? Deadhead a few spent blooms. Trim away leaves that are no longer serving the plant. Perhaps replace a plant that has finished blooming with one that's just beginning its season.

What has your attention in the week ahead?

What do you want more of? And perhaps, what do you want less of?

From a simple gardening perspective...

If you have a potted plant soaking up the summer sunshine, what could you do this week to make it even more beautiful? Deadhead a few spent blooms. Trim away leaves that are no longer serving the plant. Perhaps replace a plant that has finished blooming with one that's just beginning its season.

This week Ed and I are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary, just the two of us on a little Colorado adventure. Yes, on August 28, 1986 in a sweet little park in the foothills of Boulder we vowed to love each other through all the challenges of life.

Well, my friend I indeed have been out wandering around looking at the world through different lenses so to speak.

This morning as my fingers find their way back to my computer keyboard, I am full of “wanderment” so to speak.

What really touched me in meeting Tina and Cass, and our subsequent interview and garden tour, was their story. How as two busy moms they found each other during the isolating time of the pandemic through Instagram.  They connected because of the passion they had both discovered during that time in creating their own new gardens.

Coming together they decided to share the spirit of gardening with their local community in the form of a seed swap to help make gardening more affordable.

We might be planting the same thing over and over in the work we do, in the love we share, in thoughts we think. And frankly, when we do that the repetitiveness of the same old same old can get boring and try us right down to our bones.

This Monday morning has me feeling extremely grateful to my hands and all the work I put them through over this past weekend. Thought I would share a few words I wrote this week for my book about the power and gratitude for our hands.

After a pretty insane spring storm on Wednesday, I had to work like crazy to get all my seedlings in the garden this weekend so I could get on a plane this morning.

In addition to my tribute towards our hands I am also sharing the video of a lovely tour I did a few weeks ago with Kaitlin Mitchell of Rutabaga Gardening.