The Harvest Time!

It is the Harvest time and my son is bringing me every week some fresh vegetables to cook from the school gardens. Every child from his class has their own spot where they can grow flowers and vegetables. This week This secret farm had an open day and I could see with my own eyes what was growing there..to be used in my autumn menu's this year. I love the idea how the kids are learning how to grow things and see the results now in the end of the Summer. A very educational and a fun way to learn. We are living in a City and this is such a good project for Urban children and their families.

Making huge soap bubbles at the open day happening in school gardens !!

I had a few nice walks last week and one of them was in Amstelpark, near the Amstel river in the South of Amsterdam. I was wondering there in the early morning time, just before it got too hot. This park is full of trees and between the wider walking and cycling paths are smaller routes, where you can feel being in the green Castle of Summer.I was admiring how the light was reaching down and almost catched me, a lady under the big leaves with her Camera, a paparazzi of Green world.

And today I just did something I have not experienced for a while. I did something that I used to do as a child. I went outside and saw the fresh cut grass in the garden and the texture looked so vital and still so green, inviting. The owner of the house I am visiting takes a very good care of this flat, minimal looking area of growth. It is so surreal good looking, that it almost looks like fake. I went to lie down on my back and spread my fingers on the spiky texture of grass. I felt the individual, thin growths between my fingers. I did not have any picnic blanket and I was directly in contact with the green world and it was tickling me through my summery clothes. I was watching up to the sky and saw how an aeroplane crossed the blue natural canvas...and was followed by a flying dragonfly one meter above my head. 

This dragonfly I found earlier this week in Amstel park.

A dragonfly, in almost every part of the world, symbolizes a change, which is based on the perspective of self realisation. And the source of this change is said to be the mental and emotional maturity and understanding the deeper meaning of life. The thought of this is beautiful. I have seen so many dragonflies this week that I searched some information of this beautiful insect. The symbolic meaning hit in my mind, because this is just the way I am feeling lately, like the restless seeking is over. I am more balanced with myself, more flexible with other people, more open and more curious. 

I understand why people always seem to seek and create meanings and symbols from the nature. It is inspiring to think that the wisdom of these very old plants or animals can guide us somehow and give us more courage on our way to develop and make a positive change during our lifetime. And this power, stimulating the change, should not only be used in personal level - it should be used inside and between different groups of people,in societies - globally and universally. 

I made my own print on the soft ground and the grass made some prints on my skin. Two living forms or life in this planet !! It was like the earth and the sky were talking to me, like it already did to generations of human kind before our time, a long time ago. And I was happy I had time to cherish this moment.