One of the things I miss about my s-i-l and b-i-l no longer living in Provence is being able to buy bags of lavender at the markets. But my s-i-l has done a wonderful job with their gardens and land, planting lavender in many places, where its perfume attracts bees, butterflies and me as well. I share a few shots today with you for the Phoneography Challenge theme, “Nature.” Be sure to click on the link to find other beautiful photo offerings.
The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows…
~William Cullen Bryant
Here’s your sweet lavender
sixteen sprigs a penny
that you’ll find my ladies
will smell as sweet as any
~Lavender Sellers’s Cry, London England CA 1900
We shall find a cleanly room
lavender in the windows
and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.
Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler 1653-55
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