Wednesday, November 13, 2019

a woolen sweater and lemon verbena

A cold morning, hence the woolen sweater, and my past week's herb harvestings deemed a morning's sweet chare of stripping the dried crunchy, fragrant leaves from the  lemon verbena's woody stems. 
I will jar up these pungent leaves and use them in teas and potpourri. 

bountiful

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, i ts gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence,  but to rouse us to exertion.   ~Will...