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| you find things out by walking around and observing what is going on |
I first encountered this concept through work. Here is the definition from Wikipedia:
- a style of business management which involves managers wandering around, in an unstructured manner, through the workplace(s), at random, to check with employees, equipment, or on the status of ongoing work. The emphasis is on the word wandering as an unplanned movement within a workplace . . . The expected benefit is that a manager, by random sampling of events or employee discussions, is more likely to facilitate improvements to the morale, sense of organizational purpose, productivity and total quality management of the organization, as compared to remaining in a specific office area and waiting for employees, or the delivery of status reports, to arrive there, as events warrant in the workplace.
I hadn't associated this concept with gardening until I came across the YouTube channel Bealtaine Cottage whose author posts daily half hour videos of her walks through her three acre property. I was amazed by the beauty and complexity of life unfolding in these daily journeys and began a similar activity on my own property. Gardening by walking around.
At Riel House, sometimes we get very focused on accomplishing our gardening tasks and lose sight of how industrious nature can be. How bountiful. How beautiful.
Yes, it is time to walk around . . . and stop and smell the roses . . .
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| Rose in the Theatre |
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| Wild irises in the boggy end of the Parking Lot Garden |
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| Cranesbill geraniums flooding the Right Entrance Bed |
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| ... stop and smell the roses ... |
ps the spider in the first image is a female thin-legged wolf spider with an egg sac attached to her abdomen