Nature of the Workplace

Based on a few fast notes Emailed from iPhone6 since last March:

Beautiful, usually calm, inspiring.

Seeing God's loving hand in His marvelous creations.

Being surrounded by trees, shrubs, and other perennials.

Focus on learning products and facts while serving customers..

Asking an expert.
Feeling joy from helping my fellow men and women.

Google defines variegated: "BOTANY (of a plant or foliage)

having or consisting of leaves that are edged or patterned in a second color, especially white as well as green.

synonym: multicolored"

Bedbug killer spray on sale @ half price.

Honking horns to lock doors in the expanded parking lot.

Walking/running far-out, dusty roads to see what's "in back."
Cool downpours needed by everything and everyone.

Observing what some people do to make dreams come true.

Guests asking for dwarf trees and shrubs that won't grow too much.

Shorts and more shorts. Mostly shorts, no matter what the weather. 
And T-shirts, of course.

Bald heads burning under hot sun; sunglasses looking cool, however.

Female Pagan Pokémon player looking for holly; (the plant has "origins as a Pagan practice" according to one unopened search result.)

Shopping and wandering – frequently a fun family affair including dogs.

Kids playing hide-and-seek among shade trees.

("Hide-and-seek or hide-and-go-seek is a popular children's game in which any number of players conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or ..."  – Wikipedia)

Big cookies donated by Nurseryman Cutler; homegrown fruit and homemade salsa (with tortilla chips) shared by other generous workers.

Ice cream freezer in front "for employees only."  (A boy asked the price of our ice cream.  Sorry.)

Mid-July work a great break from vacation preparation.

Tuesday 5pm: "Where are my sunglasses?"

"Oh – I'm wearing them.  Duh!  It's been a long day."

Super Saturdays 8pm:  Feeling grateful to arrive home and see Kay.