• flowers,  Plants

    Smiling Daisies

    July 14, 2024
    Smiling Daisies at the CSU Flower Trial Gardens this morning

    Overcast skies on this Sunday morning provided beautiful diffused light, perfect for flowers. This light enticed me to stop at the CSU Flower Trial Gardens on the way home from coffee. I grabbed my camera and walked among the beauty of nature’s newest creations. At times I can almost be overwhelmed by the colors and those smiling faces of so many flowers. I was not the only one enjoying them. Bees excitedly buried their bodies in each face, then moved on the next face. I was also joined by a few early risers with coffee in hand strolling among these smiling faces. Needless to say I left with a smile on my face! Have a wonderful Sunday!

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  • flowers,  haiku,  Plants,  writing/reading

    Always Remembered

    August 20, 2022
    Xerochrysum bracteatum – Strawflower

    amazing gold and yellow
    their scent brightens the mood
    remembering you

    ms

    Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my mother’s death. I found myself spending time in the afternoon at the CSU Trial Gardens which is not the norm for me. I love how we can be lead to do certain things or be in a certain place because of that whisper from deep within. These strawflowers excited me because of their amazingly gold and yellow colors. I know nothing about them so when I returned home I did some research on these lovely flowers. From the Farmers Almanac website I found that strawflowers represent someone or something that is “always remembered.” Maybe those who have died really haven’t left us but are always with us, whispering from deep within us.

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  • bees,  flowers,  insects,  Plants,  poems,  writing/reading

    rebirth

    August 3, 2020
    Another flower and bee from the CSU Trial Gardens.

    there will be moments when
    you will bloom fully and then
    wilt, only to bloom again.
    if we can learn anything from
    flowers it is resilience is born
    even when we feel like we are 
    dying.

    rebirth by Alexandra Elle
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  • bees,  flowers,  Fujifilm X-T3,  Fujifilm XF16-80mm f4.0,  insects,  Plants,  quotes

    The Beauty of Silence

    July 24, 2020
    A bee enjoying the nectar from a cosmos at the CSU Trial Gardens

    “When you have a moment, just listen to the beauty of silence. It has so much to say.”

    Armin Ganguly

    I found this article from the Sierra Club interesting. Some of you may have already read it or at least seen the headlines about it. The Sierra Club is apologizeing for some of the early directions the organization took and the views of some of their founders. I found it very revealing and helping me see my role of my privileged life.

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