Wildflowers

Very small wildflowers that were growing on my property. Unfortunately, they’re gone now after mowing in the front and some clean-up behind the house. “I’m going to give you a handful of wildflowers so, each petal that falls will remind you that the earth breathes, and the moon rises.” (Carolyn Riker)

Clematis in the Carolina Jessamine

I love to see this every year. The volunteer Clematis blooms at the same time as the Carolina Jessamine. This may be the last year I get to see this, however, as I plan to put the property on the market soon.

Afternoon visitor

Sitting here just now, reading blog posts in my WordPress Reader, I had a visitor. This sweet little bird continues to come to the window in the back door to see what’s going on inside.

I stand with the #TennesseeThree

Yesterday the racist Republican-led legislature of the State of Tennessee voted to expel three Democratic state legislators for mounting a gun reform protest in the House chamber. This came only ten days after a shooter killed six people, three children and three adults, in a school in Nashville, the state capital. The House expelled Rep….

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Tenacity

Blooming through a crack in the concrete

Blooming for the first time in several years

The Dogwood photos I posted a few days ago were taken 30 miles away from my home, at the property I inherited when my father died. But today, I saw that the small Dogwood on my own property, which hasn’t bloomed at all in several years, is now in bloom. Linked to Cee’s Flower of…

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For Ukraine

Ever since the full-scale war began in Ukraine, my prayers and my heart have been with Ukraine, President Zelenskyy, and the Ukrainian people. I’m just a 70-year-old grandmother with a little Ukrainian ancestry, living in the rural south in the U.S., and there’s not much I can do except give my heart and prayers. But…

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