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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?

Happy Wednesday!

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

Happy Wednesday!

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!

CFFC: Sense of Touch

29 Wednesday Apr 2020

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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.

snow

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

moss

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

bark

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: Big Guy’s Tulips

22 Wednesday May 2019

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

Red tulip 2

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!