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Category: Gardens
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A lavender farm in Michigan. Let's pretend to be downwind of the luscious bouquet. Photo ©2013 by Paula Post. Thanks Paula, for sharing this wonderful shot!
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When I am away from home, I actually miss the lizards that skitter everywhere. There must be so many little eyes in the trees! They watch us, we watch them! What have we learned from each other? Not sure yet, but will get back to you! …
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As beautiful as the night. "Which night?" You might ask. The night of shooting stars or lightening bugs, or the first time you held the hand of someone you really loved? You pick! Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, Water Garden with tropical water lilies.
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His beak holds more than his belly-can. Bronze Pelican at Longwood Gardens, PA, in the Children's garden.
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There are songs that we've sang forever and perhaps never noticed the poetry of the lyrics, like this line: ..a drop of golden sun. From which song? ?
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Summertime!
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Hydrangea, an interesting name for a beautiful old-fashioned flower. Proof, perhaps, that a rose by any other name…
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My favorite fountain in Mt. Vernon Place, probably my favorte fountain in the world! The cat tails and the turtle and the playful child, all speak to a simple joy. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Sometimes it's the things that you can't see or figure out in an image, or in life, that are the most intriguing. Not the things that make you crazy, but the things that make you wonder. Photo by Vicki Johnston, as we tested my new camera on her back…
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(To paraphrase e.e. cummings…) not all matterings of mind equal one iris The line as I remember it is: not all matterings of mind equal one violet And aren't we lucky to see such things?