Odd tomato...

Fiesta Garden Update ...my tomato is really BLUE!!! http://t.co/v1a88Ws -- Teri Speight (@CottageinCourt)

I am in Greenville...heading to Laurens....and my kin

My emotions are at the surface and I am on the verge of tears.  The last time I made this journey, my sister and I drove with my niece and nephew. That time it was a working journey more or less.  This time it is to see my great aunt Lucy Hunter  and learn more about other kin I did not know I had. I will visit the old homestead, the grave sites, Flat Ruff Baptist Church and listen as I hear stories I have not heard before. When black women get together.....well lets just say it is a good time had by most if not all.

I am embracing this journey.......going to get the rental car.

On the way to embrace my roots....

Now that I snored all the way from BWI to Hotlanta....I was do excited about this journey I never went to sleep...I am now starving. I am eating at Pei Wei....here is my brunch

8 Now to eat before I miss my flight. I am so amped......I hope the kinfolk are ready!

Views from a District Heights Oasis

I wanted to share some photos of my little oasis right in District Heights,Maryland.  To some it might be a jungle and to others it is a garden filled with abundant love and joy......to me it is the gardens of Cottage in the Court.......

If wishes were dreams..........and i could still shop

pxWell here I am near my little piece of heaven and after a day of gardening, I find myself in a state of can't sleep.  Not from worry, but from a content, peaceful and blissful state of mind.  Not many people know where bliss resides.  Let me help you out with this question...it resides within.  Yep...right where you are....it is there... waiting for you to embrace it.    My bliss is embraced every time I engage in gardening..be it thinking about gardening, actually gardening, reading about gardening or in a garden just being me.  Today I was in a state of just being and I had a temporary portable garden in my truck...

How I wish I could have a moveable garden like this all the time.  What joy it would bring to my existence.  It would be like having all things beautiful with me all the time!  I have to admit, some stress would ensue.  Deciding which plant would be invited to this mobile garden party would be a difficult task.  Ah...but this girl can dream and enjoy my bliss.... i will share photos.......