Browsing Tag

flowers

  • Musings The Wonder Project

    Sweet Spring

    It appears effortless, this changing of the seasons. We open our winter weary eyes, and there it is. Life is returning to us all. The sky is peppered with sweet pastel blossoms and soft…

    April 7, 2013
  • Musings

    Love Affair

    I watch them, the little purple coneflowers and their suitor, in their dance. Petals reach to receive soft butterfly kisses, colors mingling in the summer sun. I am entranced watching this love affair unfold.…

    August 9, 2012
  • Musings

    If I Could Be Like the Flowers

    If I could, I would be more like the flowers. How they teach me. They are unwavering in their worship, knowing they must unfold to shine. It is this vulnerability, this stretching open, that…

    June 7, 2012
  • Musings

    Isn’t She Lovely

    It has been a very busy week, but I have not forgotten to stop and smell the flowers. A very sweet friend brought me some unusual flowers this week, and this lovely pink Ranunculus…

    May 4, 2012
  • Musings

    Lost in the Roses

    I picked them for Katie’s window, these first roses from our garden. Love and Peace. That is their name. She turned 24 this weekend and came home to see us. Broken-hearted, I watched her…

    April 25, 2012
  • Musings

    All Things New

    The hillside in my pasture is covered in yellow blooms. They don’t know they are a bit early. The warmth of the sun is calling them, drawing them from their earthen slumber. I hike…

    February 7, 2012
  • 365 Project 2011

    365 Project Day 340: Heart Seeds

    Canon 5D Mark ll, 100 macro 2.8, 2.8 aperture, 1/60th shutter speed, 400 ISO My mom and I share a love for Zinnias. We both agree they are one of  the most cheerful flowers…

    December 9, 2011
  • 365 Project 2011

    365 Project Day 263: Wonder

    Canon 5D Mark ll, 100 2.8 macro, 7.1 aperture, 1/160 shutter, 200 ISO,  580 EX speedlight to camera right set on manual at 1/32 second. wonder |ˈwəndər|noun  “a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by somethingbeautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable “. I pour sparkling water…

    September 21, 2011