The Enchanted Earth » flower http://www.theenchantedearth.com experiencing the magic in the moment... Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:21:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 reminder http://www.theenchantedearth.com/2010/07/reminder/ http://www.theenchantedearth.com/2010/07/reminder/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:17:48 +0000 Meredith http://www.theenchantedearth.com/?p=5082 [Yes, I want the rest of the story!]]]> “Why always ‘not yet’?  Do flowers in spring say ‘not yet’?”

~Norman Douglas

No.  Although flowers in winter, dormant or still only a sleeping seed’s dream, may say “not yet.”  They might not be ready yet.  But the great wheel will turn and their time will come around again.

Coneflower center.

It really is never too late to act on your dreams.

So you haven’t done it yet.  So what?  That sleeping seed’s dream within you is still precious, and the flower you envision may yet open from within you.  It may have needed to wait until conditions were just right.

I just felt that someone out there needed this reminder today.

And if that someone isn’t you, well… I hope you enjoy the photos of the coneflowers, at least.

Coneflowers and tall green foliage.

Namasté, y’all!

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“The flower is the poetry of reproduction.  It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

~Jean Giraudoux

I’ve lost a bit of that sense of the eternal seductiveness in the last 24 hours, struggling with some wretched virus or something that wants to grab hold of me.

Today was slated for starting the first of the lettuce seedlings.  I got as far as filling the fiber flats with seed-starting medium… and then called it a day.

I’ll just go and rest now, with a fistful of new seed packets to mull over as I drift off to sleep.

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“Nature will bear the closest inspection.  She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”

~Henry David Thoreau

(The entry for today kind of bothered me.  It’s like I was babbling away with no clear direction.  Maybe I do have an excuse, though.  On Friday I was married, and we just got back to “normal life” today.  Sigh.)

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Do you suppose each flower visited is unique to the busy bee?  Does she pause to savor a particular bouquet or the perfect, delicate curve of a petal, or is it something like the Dunkin’ Donuts guy’s attitude?  Time to go gather the pollen again….

She drinks nectar endlessly, carries it back to the hive over and over and over and over.  The hive may be six miles away from where my camera found her.  I’m guessing the nectar from each species of plant tastes slightly differently, based on the way honey tastes differently, depending on whether the bees sipped predominantly from heather or lavender, orange blossoms or fireweed.  But do the individual blossoms of a plant taste differently?  I’m inclined to think so.  Sometimes you’ll see a bee return over and over to a particular flower, and this bee could not get enough of this cucumber blossom.

Light, dewy, refreshing, not too dry nor too fruity, complex and sophisticated, made for the discerning palate and perfect for the hottest days of the summer.  Kitchen garden vintage, available August 11th, 2009, peak drinkability 10:00 a.m. to noon.

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