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Among the hydrangeas…

11 Wednesday Jul 2012

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Again and Again - However We Know the Landscape of Love, Garden, Hydrangea, Photography, Poetry, Rilke

© Joan Currie

Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient tree, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
from Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love by Rilke

 Glorious palette of colors, glorious day of love…

Autumn Cherub…

26 Saturday Nov 2011

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Autumn, beautiful, Emily Dickinson, Garden, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Joan Currie

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.
by Emily Dickinson – Autumn 

My garden cherub beholds fall’s dramatic show of color.

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because it’s…

05 Tuesday Apr 2011

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beautiful, Beauty, Daffodils, e.e. cummings, Garden, Photography, Poetry, postaweek 2011, Spring

© Joan Currie

Spring
thingS

dare to do people

(& not
the other way

round)because it

‘s A
pril

e. e. cummings

Spring is upon us! Dare to do one new activity a week for the whole year starting today and see how your life will be transformed!

One lovely spring day in my childhood, I dared to give my mother the most extravagant bouquet she had ever beheld. I had a delightful time gathering daffodils and tulips from all the neighbors’ gardens in our area and beyond. So immense was the offering that I struggled to carry the jumble of flowers home without damaging any of the delicate petals. I was quivering with excitement when I extended it to her.

Regrettably, my mother’s reaction was not what I had imagined when she learned from whence the flowers had come. (My life was indeed transformed for many weeks thereafter!)

Messenger of Love…

08 Tuesday Feb 2011

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beautiful, Beauty, cupid, Garden, garden sculpture, Love, Photography, postaweek2011, Valentine's Day

© Joan Currie

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

This little messenger of love sits by my garden wall.

Garden…

29 Sunday Aug 2010

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Garden, Photography, Pumpkin, Wreath

© Joan Currie

A garden is a delight to the eye and solace for the soul. – Sadi

I lingered in the garden this morning under the watchful eyes of the redwood giants before driving back to the San Francisco area.

© Joan Currie

Garden of Delights…

08 Sunday Aug 2010

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beautiful, Beauty, Flower, Garden, Joseph Joubert, Photography

© Joan Currie

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Joseph Joubert

My father’s garden is a lovely mix of annual and perennial flowers. I have always favored perennials mostly because of the way they change the look of the garden season by season: the clusters of white snowdrops, yellow daffodils and red tulips in the spring; the purple irises, lavender, and Johnson’s Blue geraniums in early summer; the pink tea roses and peonies in middle summer; and golden Black-eyed Susans by late summer. I like the constancy of the plants blooming year after year at the same time, in the same way when everything else in my environment is changing so rapidly.

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