CFFC: Sense of Touch

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Nature invites us to experience it with all of our senses, including our sense of touch. Silky and smooth, hard and rough, hot or cold, fluffy, furry or fuzzy. Well, maybe not everything should be touched – poison ivy and bumblebees, for example. Even isolated at home, there are wonders in nature to be savoured, if you take the time to look for them.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. – Hal Borland

Moss is popular for her unusual beauty, but what distinguishes her is that she is accessible and down to earth. – Rita Clifton

Green moss shines there with ice encased; The long grass bends its spear-like form; And lovely is the silvery scene When faint the sun-beams smile.    –Robert Southey

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, stand like druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happy Wednesday!

This is my post for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sense of Touch

Wilderness Wednesday: Bumblebee

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Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. – Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: Big Guy’s Tulips

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I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace…

I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim,ELizabeth and Her German Garden

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: July Flowers

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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Andersen

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: There is a Time

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot…a time to weep and a time to laugh,  a time to mourn and a time to dance…He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. From Ecclesiastes 3

Wilderness Wednesday: Patience

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Banded Wood or Grove Snail

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wilderness Wednesday Tulip at Dusk

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In the hush of dusk, one last bird whispers a lullaby, as the mottled sky loses its fire and slips into a velvety plum. A single tulip wraps itself in the folds of its own soft blanket. And night descends.

Wishing you all a peaceful Wednesday!

WPC: The Road Taken

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flowers, garden, Photo Challenge, photography, pink, Weekly Photo Challenge

For this week’s challenge, show us something that surprised you on “the road taken.”

I was looking for a different photo when I found this again!

Last Spring, I went for a walk (possibly the only one last Spring) and was surprised by a single pink peony waving at me between the slats of a white picket fence. Luckily it was just down the street, so I hightailed it home to grab my camera.

It’s still winter here, though it has been milder than in recent years. The snow has melted, leaving behind a world of grays and browns. I’m looking forward to the return of colour!

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. -Audrey Hepburn

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Wilderness Wednesday: Walk in the Park

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I stole 20 minutes last Friday before I had to pick Little Guy up from camp…but it was hot! I really wanted a photo of the “avenue” in the park – it was so pretty in the morning light. But by the afternoon, the “avenue” was full of town trucks, filling up at the watering station, guys visiting with one another in the final moments of their week. I went for a walk anyway, but just like me, the few flowers that were out, were wilting.

I wonder if the models at the photo shoot I passed, were wilting too?

“The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake up in the morning and have a choice between doing the laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk. You’d hate to die and realize you had spent your last day doing the laundry.” – Joyce Tenneson

Happy Wednesday!

WPC: Morning

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family, garden, nature, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

I am not a morning person but if I could choose the perfect way to start a morning, it would be this…

…in a quiet garden with a fresh, hot cup of tea…sometime after 10 a.m.

“Drink deep in the morning, See what the day will bring” – Skillet, American Noise

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I participated in my very first photo challenge in October 2013 and the prompt was Good Morning. I snapped a roll of toilet paper…it wasn’t a great shot or a great subject, but it is an activity that can set the tone for the day! 🙂

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