congratulations...

(just a photo from a recent Wisteria & Sunshine post)

Congratulations to Ginny!

I put the little slips of paper that I wrote each name upon as I received your comments this past week into a large teacup, tossed well and picked one slip. I will email you, Ginny, and get you set up as soon as you like with your 3-months membership.

If any of the rest of you who didn't win (how I wish I could have chosen everyone!) would like to see what Wisteria & Sunshine is like, a month's membership is only $7.00 and you can cancel at any time. It is quiet and rich and bright there, very much like I try to make it here at The Bower, tho' in a daily way...with the addition of gentle tasks and many resources to help us live our lives more simply and beautifully. The best resource is, of course, our lovely community, slowly growing. I do find myself "missing" some of you there and will continue to prepare and nourish the place I have created and hope that it will welcome you one day.

With thanks to all who wrote and participated.

xo

Lesley

in celebration...

...of seven years of writing and sharing here, I would like to giveaway a three-months subscription to Wisteria & Sunshine, where I am doing most of my writing and sharing these days. 

Simply leave a comment here for me to find, before midnight on May the 7th (it is always so lovely to hear from you!). I will put all the comments in a hat and announce Wisteria & Sunshine's newest member on the 8th.

If you want to learn more about W&S, you may follow the links in my last post.

Wishing you a very happy May,

Lesley

realizing...

...that today is the sixth anniversary of The Bower. Seven years of words and pictures and connection with dear and interesting people. I reread my very first post and found this closing paragraph:

How good I hope the time spent here will be. A place to hold my thoughts about making a heart-felt home-life, this Earth-our larger home, my studio and work and so many other good things. When others begin to find this, perhaps I can finally have a sort-of "Letters to Each Other" which I envisioned when The Bower was a paper and ink journal. Wish me well! I wish you the same.

We have had very good conversation and exchange here over the years, tho' it does seem to get quieter and quieter. Of course, I suppose I am quieter here as a whole world of conversation and sharing has blossomed at Wisteria & Sunshine. I believe that all that I described and wished for in that first post has been made manifest within its protected, sunny spaces. 

My sincere thoughts, on this anniversary,  are that I will continue to post here...but it is bound to be less often, as so much of my creative time goes elsewhere now.

But I would like to celebrate and show my gratitude for all the years of visits here with a giveaway, as I often have. So I will be back here very soon with a giveaway of a trial membership or two for Wisteria & Sunshine.

And since it is nearly midnight, and therefore, nearly the First of May. My "little women" and I would like to wish you a very merry May Day...