A friend gave me a gift years ago.  It was a ceramic cross that sits on an easel.  On the cross, the following words are inscribed:  "One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth."  It has always had special meaning to me.  I "googled" it today and found that it is a line from a poem by American poetress Dorothy Frances Gurney.  Click on the author's name to read it -- the entire poem is even better than the one-liner.  I must admit,  I am a sucker for garden art displaying meaningful quotations.  I gave my husband a plaque with a big tree that quotes Robert Browning's poem,  "Grow Old Along With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be."  And, I gave my mom a heart shaped stone for her garden on Mother's Day with two verses of a poem from an unknown author, "My mother kept a garden, a garden of the heart.  She planted all the good things that gave my life its start.  I am my Mother's garden,
I am her legacy. And I hope today she feels the love, reflected back from me."   And, finally, for Father's Day, I'm going to give my dad the stone pictured here with a Thomas Jefferson quote.  For those of you who know Mr. Jut, doesn't that suit him just perfectly?