"How precious a thing is the human family. Is it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?   Somebody has to get up early, stay up late, do more than the others, if the human garden is to be a thing of beauty."

-Edith Schaeffer,  What is a Family?  

(image taken walking through my mother-in-law's garden just before dark last week)