So Long, May...

The month of May wears a green skirt

And holds her lap of flowers,

Then skipping lightly on her way

Leaves warm and sunny hours.

White Garlic (Allium sativum)


She dresses woods and vales in green,
Throws daisies on the hill,
Then treading softly in the glade
She dissipates the chill.

White Garlic (Allium sativum)

And alder tree lets down her hair
Reflected in the pool;
The mountain paths wear silver veils
When early morns are cool.

White Garlic (Allium sativum)

We've longed for Spring: now she has come

With warmth and laughter gay,

To wake the world and bless the earth

This flowery month of May!

~Stella Craft Tremble

Spring Illumination

Spring...

Sound the Flute! 

Now it's mute.

Birds delight

Day and Night.

Nightingale

In the dale

lark in Sky

Merrily

Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year

Little Boy

                  Full of joy. ~William Blake

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. ~Claude Debussy

When I admire the wonders of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ~Mahatma Gandhi

A beautiful sunset that
was mistaken for a dawn. ~Claude Debussy

There's never one sunrise the same
or one sunset the same. ~Carlos Santana

Garden Aria

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song. ~Lou Holtz

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and  yet sings, knowing she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~E.E. Cummings

Each bird must sing with his own throat. ~Henrik Ibsen

 

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: "We got through another night!" ~Enid Bagnold

Shimmer Wings

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever
walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

Given angel's wings, where might you fly?

In what sweet heaven might you find your love?

Unwilling to be bound, where might you move,

Lost between the wonder and the why?...

~Nicolas Gordon

I pick the prettiest part of the sky
and I melt into the wing and then into the air,
till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. ~Richard Bach

My soul is in the sky. ~William Shakespeare

Garden Flight

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?
It is the same the angels breathe. ~Mark Twain

The butterfly is a flying flower... ~Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

Flying without feathers is not easy;
my wings have no feathers. ~Titus Maccius Plautus

Angels can fly because they carry
no burdens. ~Eileen Elias Freeman

A Mother's Garden

A mother is a gardener of God,
tending to the hearts of her children.
Her seeds are God's truth,
her hoe is discipline, 
her watering can is grace,
and her sunshine is love.
~Roy Lessin

...God's love has been poured out in our hearts 

through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. ~Romans 5:5

Children will always remain in a mother's heart, 

no matter how big they become 
or how far away they move. ~Roy Lessin

Teach me Your way, Lord,

and I will live by Your truth.

Give me an undivided mind

to fear Your name.

~Psalm 86:11

Happy Mother's Day!

A Mother's Teaching

All that I am or hope to be, 

I owe to my mother. 

~Abraham Lincoln

A mother's teaching 

impacts a child's mind,

influences a child's choices,

motivates a child's direction,

inspires a child's faith,

shapes a child's will,

and enlightens a child's heart.

~Roy Lessin

  

I will instruct you and show you the way to go;

with My eye on you, I will give you counsel.

~Psalm 32:8

With heart and voice,

With hands and face,

No one can take a mother's place.

~Roy Lessin

A Mother's Influence

A mother's best teaching tools 

are a peaceful spirit,

a graceful manner,

a gentle way, 

and a contented heart.

~Roy Lessin

There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap...

no rose so sweet as a mother's cheek...

no music so charming as a mother's voice.

~Bishop Newman

There is no influence so powerful

as that of the mother. ~Sarah Josepha Hale

Heart of a Mother

The heart of the mother

is the schoolroom of the child.

One mother is more

than a hundred schoolmasters.

~G. Wordsworth

A house is built by wisdom, 

and it is established by understanding... ~Proverbs 24:3

A mother is the best teacher a child can have. 

She teaches by word and example, 

in the early morning and late at night,

and when it is convenient or inconvenient. 

She is a teacher who knows each child by heart.

~Roy Lessin

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and loving instruction is on her tongue. ~Proverbs 31:26

Fiesta en el Jardín

Happy little bees in the garden. Always a festive party here. They gather that sweet nectar and carry it home. Sometimes they look so heavy that it must take a miracle to get them in flight. 

Respect for the rights of others 

means peace. ~Benito Juarez

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ~Emiliano Zapata

Freedom is when the people can speak,

democracy is when the government listens. ~Alastair Farrugia

Dancing in the Garden

They dance in the garden between the twinkling light. They intertwine together swaying to invisible music. But if you listen quietly and patiently you can hear them singing. The little fairies of the garden dancing in the sunlight. ஐ

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney

I know that if odor were visible, as color is,

I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

~Robert Bridges

Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.

~Michael P. Garafalo

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe 

and she laughs with a harvest.

~Douglas William Jerrold

Leaping Lizards...and Love?

Bouncing on the springs of green leaves, he jumps. 

Leaping quietly up one side and down another in obscurity to others. 

He calls in crimson bellows for a mate. 

She scurries off on the callow umbrage below. 

Crimson bellows swell furiously again 

while he slowly fingers through the jungle anew.

Creeping...crawling...leaping...longing...

Little green tails swish between the foliage and disappear.  ஐ

Precisely the least, the softest, 

lightest, a lizard's rustling, 

a breath, a flush, a moment -- 

a little makes the way of best happiness. 

~Friedrich Nietzsche

A lizard sat upon my wall.

He looked so happy, green, and small.

"What scaly thoughts are in your head?"

"I'm thinking of my bike," he said.

"Your bike?" with shock I did reply.

"I did not know that you could ride

A bicycle. I thought you crawled

Across the ground and right up the walls."

"Yes, well, you are mistaken, lad,"

My lizard said, a wee bit mad.

And from behind my potted plant,

 He took a bicycle and sat

Upon his teeny tiny seat

And pedaled off with lizard feet.

~Elizabeth Tidy

He viewed us, as we passed him by, 

With calm and yet with questioning eye,

But moveless still, as though the stone

Were portion of his being's own.

~Edward Robeson Taylor

At noon in the desert a panting lizard

waited for history, its elbows tense,

watching the curve of a particular road 

as if something might happen.

~William Stafford

Garden Life

Don't knock the weather: nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard







What happens in the garden, stays in the garden....Flying critters...crawling critters...and leaping lizards! It seems like such a small place to us, but to these little ones it is a very big jungle.

The young May moon is beam ing, love.

The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love.

How sweet to rove,

Through Morna's grove,

When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!

Then awake! --the heavens look bright, my dear,

'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, 

And the best of all ways

To lengthen our days

Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

~Thomas Moore

Spring - an experience in immortality. 

~Henry David Thoreau