On this first day of February I am
Hungering for green things growing
and beautiful flowers in bloom. Though it is now open by reservation only, I am not going to get my usual winter doses of beauty at the Como Conservatory this year. Perhaps later after I’ve had the COVID-19 immunization I will begin going out a bit more (masked, but feeling safer from serious illness consequences).
But for now I am going back to photographs I made during visits to the conservatory years ago. The photos in today’s post are from 2013 – 2014. It has been fun to revisit my work from several years ago and re-edit some of the images with the knowledge and tools that I now have.
Green Things Growing
O the green things growing, the green things growing,
The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.O the fluttering and the pattering of those green things growing!
How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing;
In the wonderful white of the weird moonlight
Or the dim dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing.I love, I love them so – my green things growing!
And I think that they love me, without false showing;
For by many a tender touch, they comfort me so much,
With the soft mute comfort of green things growing.And in the rich store of their blossoms glowing
Ten for one I take they’re on me bestowing:
Oh, I should like to see, if God’s will it may be,
Many, many a summer of my green things growing!But if I must be gathered for the angel’s sowing,
Sleep out of sight awhile, like the green things growing,
Though dust to dust return, I think I’ll scarcely mourn,
If I may change into green things growing.— Dinah Maria Mulock Craic
Are you also hungering for green things growing? Though winter remains every day we move closer to springtime. And hopefully before we know it spring will arrive again. In the meantime I shall walk outside in the snow and dream of spring.
May you walk in beauty.
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