Beauty in the Details

Look closely and see what is often overlooked…

Three simple eyes that guide a bee to its nest

Five eyes of a Carpenter bee

Feet with suction cups that allow security when holding tightly to a leaf

Caterpillar on goldenrod leaf

A discarded skin that nourishes the body

Black swallowtail caterpillar eating its shed skin

A covering that allows flight

Feathers of a Mourning dove

Hundreds of individual petals that make up a whole

Sweeping vistas may be astounding but let us never ignore the beauty in the often overlooked 

Life in the Garden

AS A GARDEN AGES – LIFE INCREASES

The labyrinth in summer

WHAT BEGAN AS A FEW PLANTS HAS TRANSFORMED INTO AN OASIS

Newest pollinator native plant garden

Twelve years ago this did not exist. It was a grass slope up to the steps. What will the pollinator garden look like in twelve years?

A REFUGE FOR ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

Twin fawns

 

Native bee on our native Echinacea

TAKE A MOMENT, LOOK CLOSELY AT A FLOWER, LOOK TO THE TREES …

Sweat bee on native Turk’s Cap lily

Blue Jay

 

Replication and Its Implications

In a world where we’ve already envisioned The Matrix and computer code is reality

All I can do is smile when confronted with naturally occurring creations

Flowers of the Gardens

What is a garden?  The free dictionary defines it as:

1. A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit

To a gardener it is much more.  It is a his/herstory of one’s life.  Flowers and trees added to canvas.

Others moved and replanted in new portraits.

Memories salvaged from farmsteads, cemeteries and family homes.

Within the layers of petals and leaves are ghosts of those who have passed and dreams of those to come . . .

Rainy Days and Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays . . .

Yet another raindrop,

Yet another leaf,

Yet another deluge

Yet another tendril

Yet another view

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I find rain beautiful!