I bought a bouquet of dahlias this week, grown by a local grower. Oh, what magnificence, beauty and joy these flowers brought me. A Bouquet of Dahlias It’s been a full week and instead of writing about it I’m going to share flower photos, quotes, and snippets of poems Read more…
Earlier this week I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum with my camera. I only spent about a half hour there before the rain began to seriously fall, but oh, such beauty everywhere I looked. Happy days indeed! Happy Days The season is truly transitioning to fall though I wish I Read more…
The word for today in my August Mindfulness challenge is miracle. I think life is full of ordinary miracles everywhere you look.Among the things that feel like a miracle to me, I count flowers of all kinds, butterflies, dragonflies, and bumble bees, trees, painted turtles, birds soaring in the sky, Read more…
Paradox My first thought when I began working on ideas for making an image for the word Paradox was, “Why did I include this word in my list?” Try googling “paradox images” and you will find that there are no images for this word. Despite my difficulty coming up with Read more…
It’s definitely true summer outside with hot muggy weather, green everywhere, and (as I’ve heard from others) lots of mosquitoes. True Summer With all the recent rain, we had a tree fall into the pond (second time since we’ve lived here). Fortunately, unlike the big old willow tree that fell Read more…