The “front yard” of our cabin is a space defined by poles, only there so that when the horses come in from pasture in the morning or go out at night, theyh don’t trample everything right around the cabin or rub against the cabin. Long horizontal poles are attached to shorter vertical poles, fitting well with the surroundings. This year, because it was spring and had been wet, there were plenty of flowers in our natural “garden”, many of them lupine. Purple and white was the major color scheme.
Posts Tagged ‘garden’
The front yard
Posted: July 24, 2018 in flowersTags: Bighorn Mountains, cabin, garden, mountain flowers, mountain wildflowers, travel, Wyoming, Wyoming flowers, Wyoming wildflowers
As Rosemary is to the Spirit, so Lavender is to the Soul.
Posted: June 10, 2013 in House and home, Nature, PhotosTags: flowers, for your sould, garden, house and home, lavender, lavender quotes, Nature, Peace, photo, quotes, spring
Spring Sunshine
Posted: April 23, 2013 in House and home, Nature, Photos, Poetry, WritingTags: garden, house and home, Nature, photos, poetry, spring, writing
Spring Sunshine
I position my chair in the sunlight streaming through the front window,
the rest of the house behind me
chill in its winter-to-spring transition.
The heat soaks into my grey fleece top
gradually seeping its welcome way through my skin,
into my bones and the center of my body.
Bushes bow slightly before the wind,
waiting to shed their winter bareness for the new growth of spring,
each bare, brown sword-branch tipped with green.
On the porch, a chipmunk overlooks the buttery daffodils and fragile narcissus
ever so slowly raising their rain-battered heads
from soaked obeisance into erect beauty.
Two goldfinches swoop down, perching in the largest bush,
tiny bird-lanterns heralding the start of another Saturday
as a cloud ship moves regally through the sky ocean.
Your daily greens
Posted: September 21, 2012 in Miscellaneous, Nature, PhotosTags: color, garden, greens, J.R.R. Tolkien, leaves, miscellaneous, Nature, photos, plants, quote
The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.
— J.R.R. Tolkien (more…)
Colors of the fall garden
Posted: September 1, 2012 in House and home, Nature, PhotosTags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, beauty, Clare Ansberry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, flowers, garden, garden photos, house and home, natural beauty, Nature, nature photography, plants, quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
―William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (more…)
Spring marching inexorably towards summer
Posted: May 31, 2012 in House and home, Miscellaneous, Nature, PhotosTags: beauty, flowers, garden, herbs, Nature, photos, spring, summer
It’s been hotter than usual and it’s been colder than usual and there’s less rain than usual, but all my usual garden suspects are heading from spring to summer with beauty and grace. (more…)