Glory Week

Didn’t you love the blog entries Kristin wrote to you last week in my absence? I also liked receiving the Quilting in the Country e-letter without having to give a thought to it. It was a lovely surprise. Another gift was the beautiful lush green lawn and blooming flowers. Apparently it really rained while we were gone. Some of the garden seedlings were popping up. Our environment was gorgeous. It was quite a contrast to the Denver area which was behind Bozeman due to snow and cold weather. I knew it must be the week local nursery man, Jerry Cashman, has coined as Glory Week. We’re glad that we didn’t miss Glory Week while we were in Colorado.

 We met Jerry and Jan Cashman when they first moved to Bozeman in the early 1970’s.  They were a young couple introducing the long standing Midwestern Cashman family nursery stock to our community. They lived in an apartment on South Nineteenth but early on had acquired land north of Bozeman where their present nursery business is located. A few couples were invited to the vacant property to a "Plant a Tree and Watch it Grow" party. I remember it was a cold, drizzly evening. Years have passed and the Cashman’s business thrives and so does the first tree that was so ceremoniously planted many seasons ago. 

As the tree grew on the Cashman’s  property so did their business. Jerry learned about the Bozeman climate and what variety of flowering trees and bushes would thrive in our area. He also paid close attention to the calendar and eventually proclaimed a week in May, Glory Week.  I didn’t check with Jerry but I decided that last week must have been Glory Week. I concentrated my daily walks in the older neighborhoods with lots of flowering crab apples, fruit trees, and flowering almond bushes. It was a perfect week for walking! Just walking from the shop and the bunkhouse was amazing. 

I'm looking forward to sharing more about our time in Colorado with you. Check back in a day or two!