Flowers

Simply wildflowers

We are still travelling but this evening before the sun’s last rays left the Rhine we were enchanted by wild flowers planted in large areas. My post tomorrow will look at another well loved natural phenomenon in this area. After each photograph is a quote about wild flowers. Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines,…

Het Loo a palace near Apeldoorn Netherlands

I will start this post with two thoughts one from Deuteronomy 6:4,5 and one from Leviticus 19:18. Then see what Jesus says to a lawyer who asks a question: ‘Master, which is the great commandment in the law?’ Here are the two Old Testament quotes: Hear, Oh Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And you will love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Sandy says…

A truncated vase with…

three bright pink hyacinths. This spring I will soon be two years younger than my mother. My sister will be five and a half years from her age. How time sweeps us all in the direction of togetherness. A white trancated cone vase with large spaces between the pink hyacinth blooms. Each top flower of each stem a little different in weathering and age. Each flower stem with tortured willow twigs nearby. Each twig carrying new small leaves and…