Spring Cleaning
I have always associated Spring Cleaning with the act of cleaning out your house, opening windows, dusting the tables off, etc. But today I realized that Spring Cleaning actually goes outside of the house and into mother nature. Now with this realization the rest of this may be a hippie, mother nature loving, tree hugging kind of entry but that's fine. I'm realizing I'm more of a tree hugger every day.
In taking care of my yard I told my mom that I was going to live in a condo for the rest of my life. This way I can pay someone else to clean my yard up for me. To fill countless trash cans of dead leaves and pine needles to lug out back to the ever growing pile of nutrients for the decomposers of the earth to devour. To rid the earth of the memories of a past fall and winter, and allow the beautiful greenery of spring to appear, and then to be followed by the beautiful sun that summer has to offer. However, as much as I have hated the task of lugging dead leaves, brances, and pine needles out back countless of times, I feel more productive in the last two hours cleaning up my yard than I ever do with writing a 20 page paper for some company.
In raking my tiny front yard I realized that raking the earth is kind of like brushing your hair. You are running these fork tip seperators through and cleansing out the dead brush. In a sense, raking is like brushing mother nature's hair. Cleaning the hair of all debris that is unnecessary and unwanted. In raking you're cleaning everything up and out to expose the greenery of the grass. You are taking the white gray matter that has appeared due to the harsh winter and making the earth young again.
Also in raking little green plants pop up. Striving to live and breath. These green plants that come unexpectedly from a pile of dead, wet, brown leaves is kind of like unwrapping a christmas present. You never know what you're going to find, how big it will be, or the majesticy of it all. (Yes I perhaps just made up my own world but you'll get over it.) Flowers have already begun blooming in the flower area in the front yard, and I can't wait for the green spuds surrounding the rock wall to reveal themselves and their own beauty.
In a sense Mother Earth never ceases to amaze me. I have realized how beautiful she truly is today. Yes, I have always known this fact, but today she just reminded me of how true it is. How wonderful it is to watch something grow and change in front of your eyes, and she does it in four completely different stages. The green freshness of spring, the sunny blue cloudless skies of summer, the colorful beautiful foliage of fall, and the serene cool white powdery snow of winter.
In taking care of my yard I told my mom that I was going to live in a condo for the rest of my life. This way I can pay someone else to clean my yard up for me. To fill countless trash cans of dead leaves and pine needles to lug out back to the ever growing pile of nutrients for the decomposers of the earth to devour. To rid the earth of the memories of a past fall and winter, and allow the beautiful greenery of spring to appear, and then to be followed by the beautiful sun that summer has to offer. However, as much as I have hated the task of lugging dead leaves, brances, and pine needles out back countless of times, I feel more productive in the last two hours cleaning up my yard than I ever do with writing a 20 page paper for some company.
In raking my tiny front yard I realized that raking the earth is kind of like brushing your hair. You are running these fork tip seperators through and cleansing out the dead brush. In a sense, raking is like brushing mother nature's hair. Cleaning the hair of all debris that is unnecessary and unwanted. In raking you're cleaning everything up and out to expose the greenery of the grass. You are taking the white gray matter that has appeared due to the harsh winter and making the earth young again.
Also in raking little green plants pop up. Striving to live and breath. These green plants that come unexpectedly from a pile of dead, wet, brown leaves is kind of like unwrapping a christmas present. You never know what you're going to find, how big it will be, or the majesticy of it all. (Yes I perhaps just made up my own world but you'll get over it.) Flowers have already begun blooming in the flower area in the front yard, and I can't wait for the green spuds surrounding the rock wall to reveal themselves and their own beauty.
In a sense Mother Earth never ceases to amaze me. I have realized how beautiful she truly is today. Yes, I have always known this fact, but today she just reminded me of how true it is. How wonderful it is to watch something grow and change in front of your eyes, and she does it in four completely different stages. The green freshness of spring, the sunny blue cloudless skies of summer, the colorful beautiful foliage of fall, and the serene cool white powdery snow of winter.