I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a… Continue reading To Trace a Line of Delicate Green
Month: July 2008
Teddy Bear Sunflower
Thanks to Kelly for letting me know that “puffy sunflower” is really a variety called Teddy Bear. Check out her food blog, I could get lost there for hours. I’m just waiting to get some local Palisade peaches to make the homemade peach ice cream. Lovingly,The Writing Nag
Puffy Sunflower
I don’t know the name of this variety of sunflower, I just call it puffy sunflower. I can see it from my office window every morning.
1000 Beautiful Things
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” Ashley Smith I found this book, One Thousand Beautiful Things at a library sale, its cover torn but… Continue reading 1000 Beautiful Things
Far Away In The Sunshine…
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.— Louisa May Alcott Lovingly,The Writing Nag
Even the Woodpecker
“Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts” Coleman Cox When we moved into our house 9 years ago I would be the first to admit it wasn’t for the backyard. It was an ugly square of a… Continue reading Even the Woodpecker
Feel Blocked…Don’t Write, Create
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher One of the biggest lessons I learned my first semester is that by using other mediums to create I would often open up my writing blocks, for example when I was doing collage the words… Continue reading Feel Blocked…Don’t Write, Create
The 2 Most Engaging Powers of an Author
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ~Samuel Johnson
Mad With Joy
Cocoa contemplating watering the garden before another 90 degree plus day. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
