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"I couldn't help but question how I'd gotten to this strange spot in my life, so far from what I'd expected for myself. Yes, there have been a heady relationship a few years back. A slew of following decisions, fueled by love and yearnings I didn't even understand I had developed. But I never, ever would have suspected that this was where in fact the sum total of these would bring me. That evening, a new uncertainty dripped into my brain. When have you any idea, I wondered, if the choices you've made were the right ones?" In 1990, Jeannie Ralston was an effective magazine copy writer and real city woman - the sort of girl who couldn't think about living on earth not shaded by skyscrapers. By 1994, she experienced called off an engagement, married Robb, a Country wide Geographic professional photographer, and was living in Blanco Texas, populace 1,600. The Unlikely Lavender Queen is the close story of a woman who gives up a whole lot for the person she loves - her favorite blue state, bagels, and all-night bodegas - and then have to speculate: Was it too much? Ralston offers a lively chronicle of her life as a wife, new mother, and an metropolitan settler in rural Tx. As she labors to convert a dilapidated barn into a livable home, package with scorpions and unbearably hot summers, increase two small children while Robb is generally away on project, she realizes her ultimate have difficulties is to reconcile her life plans and goals with her husband's without developing the proverbial loser. And just when it looks like she might be losing that fight - and herself - just a little crimson bloom changes her life. For centuries, lavender is a mystical supplement, so valuable to old Romans that a bushel would cost practically a month's salary. However when Robb results from a vacation to Provence with an idea for growing lavender on their land, Ralston is not convinced - in reality the last thing she needed or wished was to take up farming on top of everything else. Then, much to her surprise, she gradually falls deeply in love with lavender, and in the course of growing and providing blooms, hosting the public at the farm, and creating lavender products, she discovers a new area of herself. Some short years later, Ralston experienced built Hill Country Lavender, a flourishing commercial venture that transforms both her little nook of Tx and her life. The Unlikely Lavender Queen will resonate with all women who have faced the difficult choices that come with "having everything" and secretly (or not secretly) wished for great trip to come along and wonder them. Ralston's honest, funny, and poignant memoir is a testament to the actual fact that such adventures await us around every flex in life.
