While the vegetable garden is growing nicely so far, I’m also trying to expand the flower garden by adding a few containers and small plants.

So deep in my feelings, the month of April ended before I knew it and it’s May already.

Gave myself grace all this month to create from my spirit and nurture my soul during these most challenging times.

Down here in the Mississippi Delta, February was wet and cold. Five events were the highlights of this month for me.

January has just about come and gone. The new year came in with rain and very brisk, cold temperatures.

I decided to countdown the last 71 days of this year, October 22 – December 31. Day 71 marks the end of 2024, the beginning of my 71st rotation around the sun, and the last day before entering 2025.

Sunrise, September 2, 1944; Sunset, October 25, 2024. Brenda Nell Phelps’s long good-bye to family and friends ended.

A look at my fall garden.

For this first half of the month, life has been evolving around tending to garden, beginning a Yoga Healing Garden Workshop series at Three Blessings Yoga Farm and Wellness Center,

Yesterday, we came together virtually from Maryland and Virginia and from Mississippi in-person for our second Cookbook Club Sunday Dinner 2024.

Although hot as hell, did more than my share of living in July. 

On June 16, we gathered virtually and in-person (from Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Mississippi) to hold our first Cookbook Club Sunday Dinner 2024. 

June is almost over.  I have more pictures than words to capture garden life at Three Blessings Yoga Farm and Wellness Center. 

As we approach the end of May the garden is growing nicely.

Just got back home from attending the 17th Annual African American Fiber Art Exhibition, which will run May 1 – June 16, 2024, in N. Charleston, SC.

Got over being sad that I'd lost everything in the greenhouse after big ice freeze in January. Welcome to a new garden beginning at 3 Blessings Yoga Farm and Wellness Center.

Closed out March with some travel. Bid farewell to a brother-in-law, who passed away in Dover, DE. Visited with my older sister and family in New York. Even squeezed in a bit of time to see a quilt show of Elizabeth Talford Scott’s work at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Continue to carry on my little tradition of basically using the same title, except for two switch ups. I’m closing out the year with this post tradition rather than starting the new year with it.