Category: Spring

Did I mention there are roses blooming all over the neighborhood. I always had them pegged as a June flower.

And from John O’Donohue:

The beauty of a blessing always issues from a deeper place in time.

The early blooming lavender is popping out all over the neighborhood.

Getting back to John O’Donohue’s book we find a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

In silence we must wrap much of our life, because it is too fine for speech.

On my camera walk yesterday I found many roses coming into bloom. I put a texture on this one and accidentally set it to the wrong blending mode. but I liked it so much I decided to go with it.

Today I have something a little different for you. Yesterday I came across this poem from our National Poet Laureate (didn’t know we had one, don’t tell Trump).

Eagle Poem

–by Joy Harjo

 

To pray you open your whole self

To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon

To one whole voice that is you.

And know there is more

That you can’t see, can’t hear;

Can’t know except in moments

Steadily growing, and in languages

That aren’t always sound but other

Circles of motion.

Like eagle that Sunday morning

Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky

In wind, swept our hearts clean

With sacred wings.

We see you, see ourselves and know

That we must take the utmost care

And kindness in all things.

Breathe in, knowing we are made of

All this, and breathe, knowing

We are truly blessed because we

Were born, and die soon within a

True circle of motion,

Like eagle rounding out the morning

Inside us.

We pray that it will be done

In beauty.

In beauty.

On my camera walk this morning I found many new bloomers in the neighborhood. But the peonies just getting ready to bloom really caught my eye. I especially liked this one still covered with water droplets from the sprinklers.

Today from John O’Donohue: 

Too often we squander the invitations extended to us because our looking has become repetitive and blind. The mystery and beauty is all around us but we never manage to see it.

I haven’t posted an Iris for awhile but that is what I have in abundance in my yard right now. I about did myself in cleaning out the garage this morning so I used a photo from yesterday.

Today’s quote is from John Keats on the need to create:

I feel assured I should write from the mere fondness and yearning I have for the Beautiful even if my night’s labors should be burnt every morning and no eye ever shine on them.

 

I went out to photograph my Irises again and discovered the Columbine had come out while I wasn’t looking. This is the day when I either say hurray, I’m halfway done or groan, I’m only halfway done. 

And this from John O’Donohue who is now delving into the concept of imagination:

Just as the true artist is always haunted by the desire to bring the dreams of the imagination to expression, the failure to follow one’s calling to creativity severely damages one’s spirit.

Here are some sweet little violets I’ve been saving for a day when I really didn’t feel like doing this…. which would be today.

 

And from John O’Donohue:

In a sense, this is what beauty is: possibility that enlarges and delights the heart.

Here’s a lovely Lupine for day 46. 

From John O’Donohue:

Architecture is one of the most public and permanent stages on which a culture displays its understanding of beauty.