Seeds is about my experiences with backyard gardening and nature in Austin, TX. Austin lies in the Blackland Prairie ecological region of Texas. My family’s house and garden are located in North Austin; the soil here is sticky black clay.

We’re just beginning the process of transforming our yard into a more intentional garden space, hence the title of this blog. Seeds symbolize hope, new beginnings, and the promise of miraculous things to come. What could be more miraculous than new life emerging from a seed?

In addition to gardening, Seeds is a space for me to indulge my interests in writing, science, and the kinds of pretty nature photos that my photography professor in college said I shouldn’t be taking.

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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

-Henry David Thoreau

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

-George Bernard Shaw

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

-Alice Walker