Category Archives: flowers

Balance…

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

Abundant Nature Harvesting a sea of blue Taming wildflowers Insects and famers profit Harmony found in beauty A new crop is flowering in the fields near my home, painting the landscape with unexpected colour. The farmer seems to be growing … Continue reading →

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Optimist #midnighthaiku

Posted on March 5, 2019 by

Little by little The eternal  optimist Bare earth yields beauty *

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Awakening

Posted on February 20, 2019 by

Having just driven hundreds of  miles of the length and breadth of England, I can confirm that, in spite of any wintry surprises that the weather might yet have in store, as far as the earth is concerned, spring has … Continue reading →

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Weather window

Posted on November 23, 2018 by

We woke, the dog and I, to a white and wintry world. A hard frost stuck the soles of my slippers to the path as I went out to retrieve the first ball of the day. I have attempted to … Continue reading →

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Unusual people…

Posted on June 9, 2018 by

Delicate blue flowers caught my eye in the flower bed. I wondered where they had come from as they were nothing that we had planted … they had just grown. It only took a moment to realise that they were … Continue reading →

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Garden of Extinction reblogged from champagnewhisky

Posted on October 18, 2017 by

Reblogged from champagnewhisky… “Any species, now matter how unusual or common, is vulnerable…”: Of all the areas of the stunning Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa – and all the areas are stunning – one in particular … Continue reading →

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Field of dreams..?

Posted on September 3, 2017 by

Long, long ago, when the world was still young and I was younger still, I moved into a house with a garden. It wasn’t much of a garden, long-deserted, overgrown and gone to seed, but my mind painted it in … Continue reading →

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Pensée #midnighthaiku

Posted on May 26, 2017 by
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Daffodils

Posted on April 5, 2017 by

Colleen’s poetry challenge.

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Lily #midnighthaiku

Posted on March 9, 2017 by

Where inner light shines The gilding of the lily Seems superfluous The picture was taken in a chapel of the Cathedral Church in Sheffield, an ornate nineteenth century building based upon a fourteenth century design.  After the Reformation, when the … Continue reading →

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