Showing posts with label Spring Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Last Day of May....

 Last day of May and everything is new and fresh and beautiful.............

 WORLD FOREVER NEW by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 Consider that the perpetual admonition of Nature to us is, the WORLD is  new, untried.

 Do not believe in the past. I give you the universe NEW and UNHANDLED every hour.
 You think in your idle hours that there is LITERATURE, history, science behind you....

 SO accumulated as to exhaust  thought and prescribe your own future and THE FUTURE.
 In your SANE  hour you shall see that not a line has yet been written;

 that for all the poetry that is in the world....
 your first sensation on entering a wood....
 or standing  the shore of a lake 
 has NOT been chanted yet...

 It remains for you........

 so does all thought...........
 all object, ALL LIFE remain unwritten still.
 Photographs 2017   Emerson piece from "1000 Beautiful Things" (1948, Peoples Book Club) (My favourite book of poetry and prose....)

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Spring is Springing

 At last! At last! Methinks it is Spring at last! (Don't hold your breath though...it may change) Went out to poke around in the dirt and see if anything is growing. Found lovely Epimedium ( Barrenwort), all white and fresh. It is drought tolerant and is very good at surviving.
 New pea shoots popping up everywhere in the gooseberry patch. Kind of cute, aren't they?
 New gooseberry bushes, planted last fall. They made it through the winter! My huge rhubarb in he background. The same one I have transplanted all across Canada, from the Maritimes. It made it as well.......
 These are very cool.....Chocolate Rose Leaves. The roses actually have the scent of dark chocolate.
 And this is White Cat. She likes to hang out in our garden and chase the pigeons and birds, and fluff around my feet telling me about her exploits. She is one of seven cats who hide, just like she is doing, below one of the terraces to stalk birds.  Hysterical when they all chase pigeons...
 Leopard's Bane.....kind of like a big daisy. Sometimes has bloomed again in the fall, but not always. Love the name........
                      The last of the Star Magnolia blossoms.......almost done for this year.