Stars in the Garden

Little Monster

“Feed me, Seymour
Feed me all night long
‘Cause if you feed me, Seymour
I can grow up big and strong!”

~ Audrey II (excerpts from Little Shop of Horrors, 1986)

Yellow Roundup

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
~ Fran Drescher

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I’m a big fan of yellow too, but here are four photos I snapped during the week which, for one reason or another, didn’t appear in any of my posts…until now. Enjoy!
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If daffodils could gather and gossip, I think it might look something like this…

If daffodils could lean in to eavesdrop on the conversations of other daffodils,
perhaps it would look something like this…

Meanwhile over on the lawn,
these cutiepies are just happy to have some sunshine!

Unexpected Love Scene On The Lawn

I stumbled across something
as I made my way through the flowers yesterday afternoon…

I was thoroughly enjoying this patch of azure chinodoxas…

…marvelling over blossoms that have lasted for a month…

…getting weak in the knees as I lost myself in beautiful sapphire shades of blue…

…and racking my brain
as I tried to remember the name of these delightful red blooms…

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…When, suddenly, I saw it happening
right there in front of my eyes…
Shocking, really!

See how he is leaning right into her!
I felt strangely embarrassed, yet I could not look away

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I couldn’t stop myself from going out to look again early this morning,
but alas, he was already gone
– simply vanished –
and now she lies there wilted, spent and inconsolably alone.

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Splendour in the Grass

What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

~ William Wordsworth
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Thriving Between Scylla and Charybdis

The little hens and chicks that could…

Tabbie Hears a Who!

…or at least I thought I saw one!
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Today you are You, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
~ Dr. Seuss

Cuban Eye Flower

If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential
– for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
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Every year on this date a gorgeous little flower awakens in my basement
as it basks there in the glow and warmth of my indoor garden.
I’m exceptionally pleased I was able to capture a shot of it early this morning.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty,
and in the same field, it beholds, every hour,
a picture which was never seen before,
and which shall never be seen again
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moonlight in the Garden

Even those who are pure of heart
and say their prayers at night
can become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms
and the autumn moon is bright
~ Gypsy poem