Irises at Goodwins

Goodwins is our home-away-from-home, where we have had offices for the last 11 years. Named Goodwin’s after our ancestors who built the farmhouse and farmed the land, it has sheltered branches of our family, often during times of trouble, for 7 generations. The house is made of heart pine and was built in the early 1800s (we know the “new side” was added on in the mid-1830s). We are proud and graced to have partaken of this sanctuary off of busy Peachtree Road, and to have shared it with many friends and clients.

Japanese Irises welcomed spring in the conditioned soil of our gardens. The clump they grow in spreads every year, the blooms nodding sagely together in the wind.

This individual spoke to me as a mandala, drawing me into the heart of new life as it welcomed warmer weather.