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Friday, May 23, 2008
Blooming Recklessly
Rainer Maria Rilke
Some photos of the unbelievable shrieking of the wildflowers on the hill the other evening:
Indian Paintbrush
Yellow I-Don't-Knows
Riding off into the sunsetLabels: flowers, photography, Rilke, teenybopper, Tommy Roe
posted by Carol at 12:27 PM
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Finally!
I have been trying to post some photos the past few days and IT HASN'T BEEN WORKING!!! A little test for the patience...
We went wildflower viewing the other night. I had fun taking photos and I wanted to share them. But before I bring out the garden au naturel photos, I will share a little prelude. An hors d'oeuvre for the eye. Main course will begin in a day or two, if the blogger gods deem it to be so.
On the way to the open space, we had to visit the Goose family (now that the Owl family has vacated their premises and I'm feeling all empty-nested and such). 
And this! My magnifique columbine. Either I'm having a brain fart (which happens much too often) or else this guy invited himself into my whiskey barrel/planter, because I don't remember putting him there. But he's a beaut and he's welcome to stay. I can't quit smiling every time I look at him. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. - Rachel Carlson
Labels: flowers, geese, Life, photography
posted by Carol at 8:12 PM
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
First Flower
I found this year's first bloom in the Carol For Peace yard.
It didn't spit out that penny - that's just to show you the tiny size of this precious little creature.
Isn't it cute???
All of you in warmer climates probably think that this is an embarrassing, puny little guy, but around here, at this time of year, it's impressive!
Labels: flowers, photography
posted by Carol at 4:18 PM
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Snowing.... Again!
Just dreaming of the day FIVE MONTHS from now when we will have something other than WHITE.
I wanted to write about the inspiring talk that I attended last night - Rabbi Michael Lerner spoke - but I have been working on the computer all day and my arm is DOA.
Tomorrow...
Labels: flowers, let it snow, photography
posted by Carol at 4:27 PM
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Book Break
Maybe.
Labels: flowers, photography, Three Cups of Tea
posted by Carol at 2:44 PM
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. - Kahlil Gibran
Labels: flowers, photography
posted by Carol at 9:24 AM
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Bearing My Arms
Yesterday I told my physical therapist that I was feeling pretty good about myself because it seemed that I had turned another corner in my healing. Ohhhhh... Beware of saying such things to people who are paid to torture! Said torturer took advantage of my hubris by adding a couple hundred new exercises and as a result, today did not start out so great. Fortunately, my neighbor had offered the use of his hot tub, so I took him up on it. That helped a lot.
This healing journey is a little FRUSTRATING. But hiking and seeing this year's AMAZING wildflowers gives me hope and sanity. At least I still have legs that carry me to the places I love.
posted by Carol at 9:02 PM
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The earth is all that lasts.
The earth is what I speak to when
I do not understand my life
Nor why I am not heard.
The earth answers me with the same song
That it sang for my fathers when
Their tears covered up the sun.
The earth sings a song of gladness.
The earth sings a song of praise.
The earth rises up and laughs at me
Each time that I forget
How spring begins with winter
And death begins at birth.
- Nancy Wood, Many Winters
from Life Prayers, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon
Labels: flowers, Life Prayers, Nature
posted by Carol at 8:48 PM
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Monday, June 11, 2007
Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming.
Labels: flowers
posted by Carol at 9:02 AM
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Sunday, June 03, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Out in the Country
Flowers and birds and bugs and trees help me to keep my sanity. While staying in Suburban City, CA with my daughter last week, I would feed my soul in a sweet little park with wildflowers and mulberry trees and herons. I could literally feel my belly relax once I entered this piece of sanctuary in the midst of the burbs. We can't forget that we need open, natural spaces and the species that live there. We depend on each other.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? - Robert Redford
Labels: flowers, Robert Redford, soul, Three Dog Night
posted by Carol at 12:16 PM
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Purple
Labels: Alice Walker, flowers, purple
posted by Carol at 4:00 PM
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