With all the world currently ordered to stay at home, I’m finally settling my agitation at the immense shift our lives have taken, and am starting to see and feel inspired again. From ever-talented artists sharing their #isolationcreations on Instagram, photographers sharing their inspirations and pulling out all the stops in creativity, as well as my online classes exploring photo challenges and writing, I myself went out to the garden today to see if I could look at things a little differently.

Overwintered vegetables starting to bolt, new growth coming to others, a forest of carrot tops, my girls planting, spring flowers bringing color and life all around, transplanting self-seeded foxgloves, spring flowers still shining, elderberry flower buds, a hummingbird, and a little area I’m planting full of lupine that I currently call the “fairy grotto” due to all the moss and little white flowers growing so abundantly.

All of this basking in the late afternoon sunshine that we’ve been blessed with. If I am ordered to stay home, I’m most grateful it’s at the beginning of spring.