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The Scent of Lilac

I love The Scent of Lilac, apple blossoms, lily of the valley, and many other sweet-scented flowers. For the past few days when I have spent time on my deck swing breathing in the scent of the lilac that has grown up taller than the deck. It blooms every year and every year I live in gratitude for the scent of lilacs for several fragrance-soaked days. Down by the garden shed the fragrance of lily of the valley flowers fills the air. And just a week ago the apple blossom scent wafted through the air. Ah…the fragrance of flowers is Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Holy Curiosity

Yesterday I finished what might be the last edits on the essays I wrote for my photo book project. The book is called, “Looking For God,” and it’s about Holy Curiosity, the kind of curiosity that makes one feel wonder, awe, and grace in ordinary scenes from nature. I’m so happy to have completed the selection of photos for my book, ordering of those photos, and writing the essays and text for the book. It has been a labor of love filled with moments (and sometimes days and weeks) of discouragement followed by the satisfaction and joy of seeing it Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Awakening

The sky was a little bit blue early this morning. But as the day progressed the sky soon turned gray, covered by clouds. Now the sky seems to be a mix of white clouds and blue sky peeking through the clouds overhead. When I first awoke and saw the greens of the backyard glistening in the early morning sun and the pale blue sky above, the first thing I did was grab my camera and make some photographs of the beauty that I saw. These photos are not great travel landscapes or sunrise photo shoots, they are simply a chronicle Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Wild Violets and Goldfinches

The evidence of grace is all around us in this season of new beginnings. Consider the Wild Violets and Goldfinches and their wild bright beauty. Does your heart lift a little bit just to see them all bright and beautiful in the world? Mine does. I don’t need a scientific explanation or theory regarding the natural world, I simply  soak it all in and enjoy it’s great mystery and abundance. Mysteries, Yes Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous    to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the    mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever    in Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Spring on Overdrive

My lilacs are in bloom already! It feels like Spring on Overdrive, everything is hurrying to leaf out, blossom, and grow! So I am soaking up the scents and sights enjoying these days to the fullest. I planted most of my container garden yesterday and today. I’m trying an experiment. Because of the problems with deer eating sugar snap peas and bean plants when I have my containers on a table on the side of our driveway, I’ve moved a couple of containers to our deck and planted sugar snap peas and green beans in them. Because the deer cannot Read more…

By Marilyn, ago