“The sun is rising. All the green trees are full of birds, and their song comes up out of the wet bowers of the orchard. Crows swear pleasantly in the distance, and in the depths of my soul sits God.” – Thomas Merton
Nature of the week – Gardeners made out of Lego by Sean Kenney for Cheekwood Botanical Gardens’ new art show:
Shadow of the Week:
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In honor of Mother’s Day, I’m posting one of my favorites:
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
– William Blake –
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who mother us so beautifully.
Nature of the week – rhododendron:
Shadow of the Week – there’s a heart in this leaf shadow:
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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The little yellow flowers that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.” – Thomas Merton
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Then laughs the year; with flowers the meads are bright;
The bursting branches are tipped with flames of light:
The landscape is light; the dark clouds flee above,
And the shades of the land are a blue that is deep as love.”
– Robert Bridges, “April” –
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness.”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring” –
Nature of the week:—pear blossoms:
Shadow of the Week:
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Happy Easter!
“Winter passed away;
and spring,
led by the months,
awakened life in all nature.”
– Mary Shelley –
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Sit in reverie
and watch the changing color
of the waves that break
upon the idle seashore of the mind.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow –
Nature of the week – a chunk of hail beside a violet:
Shadow of the Week:
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Look how after the devastating winter
the new blossoms have covered the thorns,
look how tall the cypress has risen in glory.
Spirit and water have graced the rose garden
Enhancing its beauty.
What a blessed companionship!
– Rumi –
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – a bird ornament on top of a shelf of plants:
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“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
– Maori proverb –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – two vases:
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