| Anyone who knows me well knows that there is no | | | | store at how many garden lighting options we had. |
| place I would rather be at the end of a long day than | | | | We choose a few strings of tiny Chinese laterns that |
| out in my garden enjoying a cup of tea. In the cool | | | | we in bright teal and olive colors. We both loved |
| fall and spring months, I prefer a cup of hot | | | | them and knew that they would be the perfect |
| peppermint tea in my garden, and in the heat of | | | | garden lighting for our needs. |
| summer I apt for a cup of iced lemon tea. There is | | | | We rushed home and decided not to wait until |
| something magical about being in my backyard | | | | morning to put the garden lighting up. Instead, we |
| garden that I just cannot get enough of. I have read | | | | went immediately to our backyard garden and began |
| more books, journaled more pages, and shared more | | | | stringing the lights from tree to tree to tree. After |
| great conversations with my family in our garden | | | | checking to see that all of the bulbs worked, we |
| than almost anywhere else. The atmosphere of my | | | | decided not to let ourselves turn the garden lighting |
| garden was recently made even more magical when | | | | on until we had it all up and hanging in place. I'm so |
| we strung garden lighting throughout the entire thing. | | | | glad we waited because when we finally turned on |
| I have no idea why I hadn't thought of using great | | | | our new garden lighting it was amazing. The small and |
| garden lighting before, but I was definitely open to | | | | colorful Chinese laterns did a lot for the look and feel |
| the idea when my artistically driven teenage daughter | | | | of our garden. The garden lighting only made it more |
| suggested it as we sat on our back porch one night | | | | inviting than it was before. |
| with tea cups. She thought that garden lighting might | | | | We gathered the rest of our family and brought |
| do something special for the mood of the garden and | | | | them outside to see our work. They enjoyed the |
| that it might make us want to spend even more | | | | garden lighting as much as we did and within minutes |
| time there. | | | | we were making popcorn and had plans to enjoy the |
| Before I knew it we had sat our tea cups down and | | | | backyard garden together that evening. I love the |
| were headed to a local gardening store to see what | | | | way my garden lighting looks, but even more than |
| kinds of garden lighting we could find. We were | | | | that I love the way our garden has become a |
| amazed when we took time to look through the | | | | gathering place for the people I love most. |