A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor Hugo
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All the blooms to greet me yesterday morning and some greens, too. Not every beauty is a blossom. How I love this space and this patch of earth that is ours, no strings, save those attached within our hearts. Sometimes, when the city noise rattles uncomfortably beneath my skin, I ponder leaving for more solitude, more quiet, but then I list all that I love – Palmer Park a quick walk, downtown the same time via car, a little longer on the bike, and all our wonderful neighbors and growing things, I know it isn’t terribly likely. How my heartbeat quickens to witness the lodge pole climbing skyward, leaves in a slow motion unfurling, the coming of green, green, green, and every color of the rainbow. Home.
And how I look as I sit mesmerized, t-shirt, ponytail, no frills. An hour spent gazing. wearing my Grandma glasses, as Greg calls them, because I remind him of her when I wear them. A favorite hat, bought in New Mexico, of course. My best canine companion. And that light!!
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
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Happy Birthday to my Mom!!
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Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?
George Carlin
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My recipe for pancakes (a form of L O V E ) here….
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Hopped on the bus for a trip to the J.C. Raulston Arboretum…
Greg’s new favorite tree – a crepe myrtle
Made friends with a bench named JUDY
God bless the jasmine – intoxicating our senses for the whole of our stay.
ternstroemia
evergreen dogwood
symphytum x uplandicum
This maple, whose name I fail to recall, leafs out in red!
echinacea pallida
another crepe myrtle and some Oregon grape!
amorphophallus kiusianis
sinningia sellovii
My peonies are only just beginning to bud, while those in Raleigh are in full bloom!
Walked from the arboretum to the North Carolina Museum of Art .
They have a pretty special outdoor sculpture park (the Ann & Jim Goodnight). This first bit of whirligig fun Wind Machine is by Vollis Simpson.
Bees!!
No Fuss
Mark di Sivero
Ernest and Ruth
Hank Willis Thomas
Gyre
Thomas Sayre
Collapse I
Ledelle Moe
hi!
I’m inside:
Sculpt C
Jamie Hayon
We A L L do…
Miss Everything
(Unsuppressed Deliverance)
Amy Sherald
Semi-Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery
Karen LaMonte
Tar Baby vs. St. Saint Sebastian
Michael Richards
(No not that one)
Persephone
George Warren Rickey
The shadows!
Askew
Roxy Paine
