I've been mostly absent from the blogging scene these past several weeks. It sure takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to ready a home for sale. I've collected a lot of "stuff" in twenty-nine years and the house has needed a lot of work to get it up to snuff. But I'm just about there. I think it will be on the market before this week is over. And then it's a waiting game to see when it will sell.
I'm not looking forward to the constant care to keep it looking pristine, and then disappearing on short notice while the home is being shown. But that's all part of the game and it must be endured if I ever want to haul my behind up to our new place. And I most definitely do.
I've not had time to take many photos lately and even less time to put a blog post together but I did set a few up in advance a long while back. The following images are from late spring and early summer. I'm sure most of us would enjoy receiving flowers at this time of the year. These are my gift to you.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
~ Henry David Thoreau
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
~ Honore de Balzac
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson
If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
~ John Harrigan
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
~ Gerard De Nerval
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured
flower.~William C. Bryant
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
~ Jean Giraudoux
More photos coming up... sometime.
