Finding Money on Trees

(Literally)

Photo by micheile henderson on Unsplash

After a stressful fall and winter, spring has been looking particularly good. The yellow, bobbing heads of daffodils greet me each cold morning, the sun brighter each day through my living room windows. Green is sprouting everywhere, and yesterday when I did my morning rounds, I found more green than I was expecting.

I’m talking about cold hard cash.

Stuck in my dormant lavender hedge, I spotted the corner of a folded $20 bill fluttering in the breeze. As I bend down to pick it up, my eyes caught sight of another $20 trapped around the trunk of a young Sky Pencil Holly tree.

Delighted, I pocketed both and ran into the house to tell my husband that money does, in fact, sometimes grow on trees.

Earlier in the month, after a slew of bad luck, I decided my author photo and my house needed a change in energy. This is my year to shine, after all, not mope around empty-nesting and getting injured. (Shine is my word of the year).

I needed to dress up for an important Zoom meeting, so I snapped a new author selfie in the spring light of my living room, wearing green, of course, and it came out so good! Definitely the vibe I’m going for this year.

This week, I started spring cleaning the house. In the back of my teen’s old closet (which is now part of my writing office), I found a jar full of pennies she left behind when she went to college.

I remembered that according to Feng Shui , to bring money into your space, you can put a jar of coins in the left corner of the room adjacent to the front door—the wealth corner of your home. So I moved the jar of coins there and spruced up the area. My husband rolled his eyes at me, and I told him it can’t hurt.

And now, a week later, money under trees in my garden!

I wonder, of course, if perhaps my husband is playing a trick on me because the whole thing is a bit too obvious and literal, but he searched the rest of my garden for more cash, and then said I should put a coin jar in every room of the house.

Is he teasing me? Maybe. He’s been known to play some pretty funny April Fools’ jokes before. But to leave bills outside in the garden all night blowing in the wind? I don’t know…

I plan on buying some new garden plants with it, regardless.

It’s time for some positive energy around here.