Look who popped in just in time to celebrate Earth Day.

Yep, five purple cosmic cars joined the little golden star engine who knew he could along the crocus train.

Didn’t I say that gold and purple have been ongoing color and energy themes lately?

Uh huh!

These six little ones give a high-five confirmation to that, as the belles of the ball so far.

But wait! What’s this??

To my surprise I also discovered these lettuce varieties sprouting with glee without my doing a thing. You might remember I put together four mini greenhouse plastic containers to start veggies by seed and see how they’d do. It was a slow start with a few goodies for Astrid, but then Winter hit and they were buried for months.

I later saw that the weight of the snow broke most of the tops of the containers, but this one just had a crack through it and smaller damage than the others. Somehow this must have insulated the soil and got things going.

I had pretty much thought these were goners and would have to start over, if I chose to at all. But without my doing anything, including no watering – just what ever moisture seeped in from the melting snow, here come some yummies! I’m curious if I’ll get more surprises from these containers, and everywhere for that matter.

I have yet to touch a thing anywhere outside, as I await the last bits of snow to melt. It’s nearly all gone so my May plan still feels accurate and aligned with a large span of time I will have free. There’s SO much work to do, I don’t want to start until I have consecutive days and hours to tackle all of it.

It will give me some garden-of-life nurturing to add balance to my days during the next go-around of time to myself.

So much is stirring, pushing through, popping out, and strengthening.

Happy Earth Day indeed!

However you spend today and the days to come, perhaps you might add in a little nature connecting time as part of your new, if not already, daily crafting.

We’re off to a sunshiny Earth Day festival and vegan lunch Meetup here today, but not without first getting in a lot of fur baby snuggles! That counts too, as does plant and crystal time, culinary creating, grounding of any kind, walks or sits outdoors, and engaging your five senses – just to name a few.

Make your Earth connecting fun, as Mother Nature would love to play with you.