The further I go, The less I know
The less I know...

Monarch Motel

 

Help a Turtle Cross the Road

I declare October, Help a Turtle Cross the Road Month, in honor of boy I loved and lost

The long and winding road

But it is long ago--

It seems forever--

Since first I saw thee glance,

WIth all thy dazzling other ones,

In airy dalliance,

Precipitate in love,

Tossed, tangled, whirled and whirled above,

Like a linp rose-wreath in a fairy dance.

Robert Frost

The Butterfly upon the Sky,

That doesn't know its Name

And hasn't any tax to pay

And hasn't any Home

Is just as high as you and I,

And higher, I believe,

So soar away and never sigh

And that's the way to grieve --

                                                                 Emily Dickinson

On the prairie

Sarah plain and tall

Can I exist in the wilderness, with such an outlook, afraid of my own shadow? 

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost

I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper
sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.

The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes,
new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind,
and the old things go, not one lasts. ~ Carl Sandburg

Awake, shake dreams from your hair my pretty one, my sweet child

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Do you think she knows that the sun will come back tomorrow? or do you think she lives everyday as if it's her last?

THE WILD SUNFLOWER

At early dawn, like soldiers in their places,
Rank upon rank the golden sunflowers stand;
Gazing toward the east with eager faces,
Waiting, until their god shall touch the land
To life and glory, longingly they wait,
Those voiceless watchers at the morning's gate.

Dawn's portals tremble silently apart;
Far to the east, across the dewy plain,
A glory kindles that in every heart
Finds answering warmth and kindles there again;
And rapture beams in every radiant face
Now softly glowing with supernal grace.

And all day long that silent worship lasts,
And as their god moves grandly down the west,
And every stem a lengthening shadow casts
Toward the east, ah, they love him best,
And watch till every lingering ray is gone,
Then slowly turn to greet another dawn.

~By Albert Bigelow Paine~

"Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadow.
It's what sunflowers do."
by Helen Keller

Martin & Co

“Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light”
~ Eugenio Montale quotes

...and good night moon

Beyond the wild cucumber curtain ...

Silver Falls

Silver Falls is a gorgeous State park 15 miles from our place. I've driven there numerous times, but this was our first time to hike to the waterfall.

Building up the great excitement

of all that could be...

Bearing the weight of won't ever happen again

Feeling the disappointment of time's failed promises...

betrayed by nothing guaranteed