Each year at about this time I feature our garden pond in a post. Today, Friday I will look at photographs I took of it this past week.
Sunday at 13.17
Monday at 8.23
Tuesday
Why this odd oil pastel? There is an answer here amidst an introduction for someone new reading my blog:
I’m Sandy and I’m married to Roy. My husband and I are Christians and love to travel, work in our garden and since retiring I have enjoyed art by visiting galleries in different countries and using it ‘to see what I am looking at.’ Hence Tuesday’s entry for looking at this.
It is noticeable that the pond level is susceptible to our heat wave and because stems are shorter water collects on the leaves as I fill it. The use of a hosepipe to do this now is probably not allowed as we have been put into draught conditions.
Wednesday 6.05
I need to cut away old buds and leaves from the lily, especially now as the water level decreases rapidly and minerals become more concentrated.
Friday 7.36
The sun catching the tops of a self seeded grass and bramble leaves as a new day begins.
Our pond at the end of ‘rainless’ July 2026.
And here is a surprise which I captured on Tuesday night of this week. I knew it was absolutely spectacular so took this on my cell phone from our car travelling at 70 on the motorway.
I learnt from a fellow blogger that what I had photographed was the buck moon.The name comes from Native American traditions, specifically the Algonquin speaking tribes. The July full moon is said to be the start time for the fuzzy velvet antlers to grow on male deer, buck.
Nature is full of surprises, from a pond lily pad to the moon!
And here are two quotes one very old from Solomon:
‘ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.’
And another from Saul Bellow:
‘ A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.’
Take care,
Sandy 🙂