The Rose Garden: Right Before Spring

Isn’t this all our stories?

Welcome to The Rose Garden, your place to find small beautiful things in the Land of Oaks and Roses.

One of my favorite things about this time of year is watching plants start to peek out from the cold, sometimes even icy, ground. My kids will shriek, “Mom look! Blooming!” We stop often to take a closer look because it feels so special. After everything, there they are again. Isn’t this all our stories?

A few things about these right before Spring plants that might help us think about our own growth too:

1. The energy needed for blooming is gathered in the dark when there’s nothing to see above ground.

2. Sometimes the sun shines and growth starts, but then a freezing day comes, and the plants have to start all over again.

3. Different plants bloom at different times. A plant doesn’t change pace because another plant across the street started blooming first.

4. The plants have no control over the sun or the temperature. The conditions don’t get better because the plants worked harder, or thought more. The conditions for growth arrive one day because that’s just the natural order of things.

Hope you spot some of this early growth wherever you are!

With much love,

Olivia

One Last Thing

I went through 179 pages of Shopbop sale so you don’t have to:

• Arizonas, arizonas, arizonas

• I never see Shon pants on sale (size down one size)

• These jeans we discussed last week!

• Perfect white tee (also in cream)

• Hanky pankys

• These Jenny Bird earrings (also in silver)

• This tote I’ll be wearing again this year

• These gorgeous Loeffler Randalls

• The pouches from my travel story!

• Couldn’t ignore this laptop case