6 December
Image by Researching Media
Spilled coffee grounds, and clipped stems from some winter flowers.
Her Roses Ripple Like an Asp
Image by garlandcannon (on hiatus)
"The forest trees stand like a cloak,
a rosebush grows there in that brake.
She's wrapped around a massive oak
her flowers a sweet picture make
when stroked by wind, they tremble, quake.
Few have passed her glowing vines
without a quick-caught startled gasp,
such complicated intertwines-
her roses ripple like an asp
through thickset oaken leaves she grasps.
The winters come and bring their chill-
this fragile rose, snow can't revoke.
Instead, she blossoms fuller still,
the winds can't reach her petalled cloak...
she dances with a mighty oak."
-- Glass Slippers at allpoetry.com/poem/9241547-A_Hothouse_Rose_in_the_Wilds-b...
Created for Flaming Pear's It's All About 12 challenge at www.flickr.com/groups/flamingpear/discuss/72157628652673761/
Source, Star Spangled Rose Topaz Sketch, courtesy of cindy97007 at www.flickr.com/photos/cindy_mc/4606931337/ and in comments.
Texture Gold 8 by lenabem-anna www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/6525180733/
Native Garden-Winter (March 13, 2011)
Image by aloucha
Taken 3/13/2011 at the Native Flora garden. I love the twists and turns in this photo, and the bit of blue sky coming out in this otherwise monochromatic picture. In retrospect, I think the garden was open (unusual for the winter) because it was a very warm day.
Image by Jessica Kennedy
when i haven't taken pictures in a long time, i go to the arboretum.
bigger.
Grandma & I
Image by Travis Jon Allison
Mom & I went to visit my 91 year old Grandmother in her nursing home today. She's had Alzheimer's Disease for quite a while now - who knows when these things start.
She was having a particularly good day. I took her pictures to see on my computer - that always blows her mind a little...
Mom brought Grandma a narcissus plant in a box that we could work on for a little while with her. She always loved to garden.
Merry Christmas Grandma!
