Planting Gardens

Spring has sprung as they say. Well, Spring is trying to "sprung" in Brevard. It seems we're into our last more than chilly nights, which ease all of us into the season. It's a nice time of year and I like the nip in the air first thing in the morning. The temperature during the day is reaching comfortably into the mid-60's and giving the flowers, trees, and grass a chance to bloom and grow. We've decided to plant a garden this year and have methodically put the plan down on paper and laid out the ground work with hopes of actually putting the first seeds in the ground in the next couple of weeks.

Our family started this Spring off by celebrating my parents' Golden Anniversary. What a neat way to start the season and remember the past 50 years. For my parents, raising 3 children, moving into new homes and communities to eventually return to the hometown my dad grew up in, 5 grandchildren and all that comes with that wonder, not to mention sisters and brothers, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, great and grand, young, old, and those that are gone - the years have held so many beginnings and endings. In our family it is hard to gather everyone together when all are scattered like seeds in the wind along the East Coast. This celebration was the first time in 10 years my brothers and I, and our families, have all been together with our parents. It is funny how even with years in between we all seem to pick up where we left off and our children seem to do the same with their cousins. So many gardens planted.

For us, Spring brings (more!) soccer, band concerts and piano recitals, and the home stretch of yet another school year. I know my husband and I will soon find ourselves looking back and wondering when "pig-pen" soccer turned into a more skillful game; honking clarinets and piano marches turned into symphonic performances; and all that homework turned into graduations! So many seeds being sown.

This time of year also seems to remind us of why we have chosen Brevard as our home. Although we are not from the area, we have been here for 16 years and after living in various parts of the country and in my husband's case oversees, do consider Brevard our home. It is a nice community that allows our family to bloom and stay in touch with what is important to us. Yes, we toss around the idea of moving occassionally, but always come back to wondering why we would want to make a change. Never being able to come up with any reason to leave, and only very good reasons to stay, here we find ourselves and for that we are thankful.

I think annuals are pretty, but there is something about perennials that sit better with me. Having said that, I have come to realize that change does happen and change is good. For me, after working in real estate for some 14 years I'm happy to say that making a change and coming "back to town" to work for Terra Firma Group is giving me the opportunity to not only continue to live in this really neat community and stay on "solid ground", but to work in it with some pretty great people and help others find their reality of calling Brevard home . . . so many gardens yet to plant.