This post is recycled from 2011, with a few changes, but all in all the gratitude is still the same!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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In the few days that she lives in this garden,
this magnificent butterfly gives it her all.
Beauty is as beauty does.
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Easy on the eyes
and pleasing to one's sense of symmetry and grace and order –
the vanishing point turns a corner
never to be seen or heard from again!
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A lone surfer enjoys a long ride on a windy morning
as the sun rises into a mackerel sky.
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Do you ever want to just disappear?
Blend into the background ?
There is camouflage for almost every occasion!
Of course, as children we might have learned very early on how to melt into the wallpaper –
a defense mechanism, better left in the tool box,
most days.
Isn't Nature amazing?
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Never too gnarly for these avian surfers,
and always a joy to behold.
More wind in St. Augustine with the Brown Pelicans making the best of it.
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Clap your hands if you believe in faeries…
Ladew Gardens meets Peter Pan.
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According to Webster:
woof: the threads interlacing at right angles
with the warp in a woven fabric.
When we are young, we think we should chase sadness away,
banish it as though it were something dirty and undesirable,
only to have it pop up again and again and again.
As we age, we come to realize that sorrows and joys are the fabric of life –
intertwined.
When one is prevelant, the other is close by – always.
Always.
Like the rose
and her thorns.
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How do you catch a unique rabbit?
You 'neak up on him.
How do you catch a tame rabbit?
Tame way.
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Another wild windy day at the beach.
Is it really ourselves
we find in the sea?
whatever we lose
like a you or a me
it's always ourselves
we find
in the sea.
Perhaps,
if we are paying attention,
it is ourselves we find everywhere.
A remembered shard of a poem by e. e. cummings about maggie and millie and molly and may.
Photo of Villano Beach, today, 11.13.13.
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