Day Two Hundred Thirty Nine 2013

Backyard Wandering
"Not all those who wander are lost", a line from the poem All that is gold does not glitter, written by J. R. R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings.




We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
~Henry Rollins

Day Two Hundred Thirty Six 2013

Jungle cat stalking its prey among the exotic flowers. No, wait, that’s just Lily kitty from next door strolling through the back yard on a Saturday afternoon. And a lovely Saturday it was. Was yours?

Day Two Hundred 2013

"That beautiful season the Summer!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
And the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
-  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy TGIF! Hope your day was filled with magical light.

Day One Hundred Seventy Five 2013

One is the loneliest number ~ so it is for this Calla Lily that blooms in our back yard every Summer. She’s right on time. Why don’t we have more of these in our yard? I’m sure she’d love some company.

Day One Hundred Twenty Seven 2013

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.     
~Sigmund Freud

This is what’s left of the one and only bloom on our lilac bush. Pretty little purple petals dashed on the rocks. Bummer. I took this picture with my cell phone camera set on solari color. It’s a neat effect.

Day One Hundred Five 2013

"Since Iris is the Greek goddess for the Messenger of Love, her sacred flower is considered the symbol of communication and messages. Greek men would often plant an iris on the graves of their beloved women as a tribute to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to take the souls of women to the Elysian fields*."      ~Hana No Monogatari: The Stories of Flowers

[*The Elysian Fields or Elysium refer to a beautiful meadow in Homer where the favored of Zeus enjoy perfect happiness. By the time of Vergil (Virgil), the Elysian Fields had been located in the Underworld as the home of the dead who were judged worthy. In the Aeneid, those blessed dead compose poetry, sing, dance, and tend to their chariots.]

I love the Irises that bloom in our yard. The Iris is the Tennessee state flower.

Don’t say I never taught ya nothin.

Day Thirty Eight 2013

“Consider the daffodil. And while you’re doing that, I’ll be over here, looking through your stuff.”       ~Jack Handy



First two pics are macro daffodil { buttercup, jonquil}. The one in the last pic I found on the deck post. Someone (I’m guessing a grandchild)  had picked it and then forgot it.

Day Two Hundred Forty Five 2012

"By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer."
- Helen Hunt Jackson, September, 1830-1885

Day Two Hundred Forty 2012

Random

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
- William Shakespeare

Day Two Hundred Nineteen 2012

"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."
~Celia Thaxter

Day Two Hundred Six 2012

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.
~Monty Python's Life of Brian

Day One Hundred Ninety Three 2012

A Little Middle-of-the-Week Randomness






God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
~C.S. Lewis

Day One Hundred Sixty Six 2012

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
~ William Blake
No bees, no honey; no work, no money. ~Proverb

Day One Hundred Fifty Nine 2012

Random Macro Around My Yard~Flowers, Ant, Flower Bud, Sunlight Reflections In Birdbath




Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Day One Hundred Twenty Six 2012

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day One Hundred Seventeen 2012

Let’s dance! I snapped these two ants with my macro lens this afternoon. They were crawling around on a clover flower in my back yard and were about the size of the exclamation point in that first sentence. When they found each other, they paused long enough to say ‘hi’ to each other (and for me to snap this picture while they were still) and then they moved on. Places to go, other ants to see, I guess.

Day One Hundred Two 2012

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost

Day Eighty Five 2012

Random Macro Photos~Blooms, Typewriter Keys, Printed Word

Day Eighty 2012

"Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
~  The Gospel According To Zen
(macro wild daisy about the size of my thumbnail) 

Day Seventy Six 2012

.....three days ago

....and today. The best part of spring (and it isn't even officially spring yet!) is when our cherry trees bloom.

"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough."
- A. E. Houseman, Shropshire Lad