Day 52 – Hardy celebration
“Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration… in the very teeth of winter.” ~ Louise Wilder
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“Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration… in the very teeth of winter.” ~ Louise Wilder
“I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life […]
“Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter’s pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, And willow stems grow daily red and bright. These are days […]
“Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.” ~ Margaret J. Wheatley
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.” ~ William Carlos Williams A couple of weeks ago I posted a black and white image of the buds of a Hyacinth that I […]
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” ~ Henry David ThoreauLast year we managed to get a couple of free mirrors from Freecycle. Just one of […]
“The first and last frosts are the worst.” ~ George Herbert I have no idea if this is the last frost. I sure hope so but it is only mid Feb and this is England […]
“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.” ~ Douglas Coupland As you can see this is not so much under construction as it is under destruction. […]
“Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will […]
“I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.” ~ Lucy Christopher