GAIA'S HEARTBEAT experience the pulsing earth in photos
Friday night, April 19, 2013, 75 degrees. As I look toward the west, dark gray clouds are rapidly moving eastward. The flowers that have graced the spring gardens at Valley View have started to wilt and many may be decimated by tonight’s expected torrential downpour.
Take a moment to walk the gardens and see what has bloomed thus far.
Come back again to take a closer look at the flowers of Valley View, thank you
A prelude of days to come,
A weekend of sunshine and a day for sun-kissed skin
As a blanket of leaves is tossed off of flowerbeds
Tightly closed buds of Helleborus began to stretch towards the sun
and drifts of snowdrops open revealing their cups of green
As one season ends and another begins the rhythmic cycle of life continues.
Plants once again push through the soil beginning their journey from flower to seed.
Where a single blossom emerged last year many arise this year.
For this gardener joy abounds in the simplest of pleasures – the beauty of a flower!
An unusually warm meteorological spring has given way to a plethora of flowers.
Where once brown earth ruled waves of blue now command.
Hand in hand with flowers come emerged insects.
Beetles and bees and butterflies.
While sitting on the brown earth trying to photograph my Helleborus this gentle Sulphur flew ’round me. For a moment of time it landed on my lips. A kiss, a wish fulfilled.
To sit in Gaia’s garden and become one with her children, magical. . .
The Iris and the Lily 