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Wilderness Wednesday: Love Grows

12 Wednesday May 2021

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We bought our humble abode twenty years ago this September, and that Fall Big Guy and I planted red tulip bulbs. The squirrels have tried really hard to decimate them, and they nearly did.

These hardy beauties fought back and are flourishing again.

They are a profound reminder that despite all the different seasons, the good and the bad, a little love can make things grow strong and beautiful.

Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it and it will outlive you. Neglect it and it will wilt away and die.

Suzy Kassem

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Happy Mother’s Day

10 Monday May 2021

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Happy Mother’s Day to ALL the special women in my life – older, younger, by blood, by faith, by friendship!

The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.

Isaiah 58:11 (NLT)

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Wilderness Wednesday: Mud Between the Toes

22 Wednesday Jul 2020

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Growing up, I liked to look at my Mom had a Golden Book of Poetry. My favourite poem was this one:

Mud is very nice to feel
All squishy squashy between the toes.
I’d rather wade in wiggly mud
Than smell a yellow rose.

Nobody else but the rosebush knows
How nice mud feels
Between the toes.

– Polly Chase Boyden

While this little guy doesn’t resemble a blond pig-tailed girl with rosy cheeks in a pink sundress, I think he shares her sentiment. Cool, sticky mud between the toes.

Frog 2020

Dad noticed him and knocked on the window. I had to creep into my Mom’s garden, barefoot and still wearing my nightshirt, to take pics, so I got to enjoy the mud too! 🙂

It’s supposed to rain today. I wonder if anyone else will play in the mud?

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CFFC: A Single Flower

17 Wednesday Jun 2020

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The fattest and most scrumptious of all flowers, a rare fusion of fluff and majesty, the peony is now coming into bloom. – Henry Mitchell, American Garden writer “Earthman”, 1924-1963

These may not be my best photos of flowers, but it one of my favourite flowers and they are in bloom right now! And what better way to appreciate them than to pass the time admiring them, both through a lens and with the naked eye. They’ve always reminded me of ball gowns, and what girly-girl doesn’t love an over-the-top sparkly, ruffled confection?

Pink Peony 2_ed

It’s only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. – Margaret Wander Bonnano

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This is my post for Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge: A Single Flower

Wilderness Wednesday: Purple

03 Wednesday Jun 2020

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He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” – Rudyard Kipling

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past  and hints of the future. – Margaret Miller

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Happy Wednesday!