Category: Flowers

Flowers in my garden and yours

Borrowed Beauty

Posted on by lindaskelton

While I wait for the snowdrops to push their way up and bring their beauty to my world,

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I’m enjoying nature as seen through an artist’s eyes, one of my very favorites…

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Something in nature inspires creativity, so I had to sit down with my own quail egg and try my hand at recreating one…

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Now that was fun!

And there are more in the fridge where that one came from, thanks to my desert-loving daughter with her own little apartment-dwelling covey of quail…

P1090664 Always a sunny-side up to be had, even on a rainy day!

–LS

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Heralding October

Posted on by lindaskelton

 

In all the recorded history of our town never has there been a September so rain-free as the one just past! And now October has come with a token rainfall and the sun lingering yet…

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We had our first frost this week and our first fire in the woodstove.  I’ve dug out my turtlenecks and my new woolie socks…

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We’ve commenced our fall birthday season with strawberry chiffon and black forest cakes and a whole quart of whipping cream consumed between the both of them!

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But for this morning I’ve come out to savor the brisk brightness of autumn and see what’s smiling in my garden…

I find honeybees harvesting last pollen and nectar from summer’s merry-golds…P1080400

Pole Beans hang on the vine fattening seed for spring planting.

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Other more exotic seed pods do likewise.  Here’s ‘love in a mist’…

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I stumble upon my fall crocus nearly spent from its blooming, its beauty almost overlooked.  And I am glad I came out to see the morning…

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Nasturtiums ramble brightly still, holding their faces to morning’s cold dew for a few more days.

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Jim’s homegrown Christmas trees, backlit by morning sun, await their season of celebration…

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While this year’s lone duet of wee pumpkins herald October.

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The neighbor’s grapes are plump and tart as ever.  Rachel tries her hand at jelly. We’re surprised to see the color green grapes produce!

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The firewood’s all dried and split, gathered in to clear the chopping lot  for next year’s logs.

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And I sit out back in the Adirondack, cherishing the gentled chill of this fine October morning… Whoops, roosting crows in the willow branches straight overhead are intent on making a mess of my meditations…must move on.

–LS

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Gen.8:22

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