I Have a Garden - An Autumn Garden

If I post pictures of my garden it's usually in the spring, but after our recent rainy days I looked at my garden this morning and thought it especially pretty.  Unfortunately my pictures don't show the beauty I saw.  My photos had too much glare, so I cropped out the glare parts and revealed some of the area where the tree's morning shadow casts across the flora.  It will have to do.

 

This makes me think of a favorite song I learned as a child in Primary. It's a song I would sing and rock my babies to.  I even sing it now, to myself. I love the old French melody and the message.  I have never forgotten it. The words are by Mary Hale Woolsey:

I Have a Garden

I have a garden, a lovely garden,

With flowers blossoming ever fair;

Where sun shines brightly, and rain falls lightly,

And breezes gather sweet fragrance there.

Songbirds come singing out of the sky;

Butterflies winging, hovering by;

And in my garden, my lovely garden,

There's always beauty to greet the eye.

I have a garden, a secret garden

Where tho'ts like flowers grow day by day;

'Tis I must choose them, and tend and use them,

And cast all wrong ones like weeds away,

Goodness and love are seeds that I sow;

God up above will help me I know,

To keep my garden, my heart's own garden,

A place where beauty will always grow.

Mary Hale Woolsey is also the author of the more famous, "Springtime in the Rockies".  This was a favorite song of my mother. It was a goal of hers to learn to play it on the piano.  I remember her practicing it.