Baby lettuces and broccoli transplants sitting in a ray of afternoon sun, patiently awaiting their turn to settle into the earth. These plants will be nourishment for our physical bodies later on, if all goes according to plan. But for now they are food for the soul, which needs plenty of beauty and stillness and light.
This prosaic spring moment is my response to photo challenge number 25 from The Four.
And it’s nice and green for Pip over at Capturing Beauty, too.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
- Elizabeth Coatsworth
This is my response to The Four’s photo challenge number 19. So many lovely responses seemed to focus on the berries. Naturally. They are a gorgeous subject. But it probably won’t come as a big surprise to regular readers of this blog that my instinctive response centered on the earth coming to a rest.
I suppose it’s just as well. There wasn’t much in the way of snow, frost, or even fires for me to photograph around here anyway. The true killing frost is remarkably late this year. (Although I’m hardly complaining.) And snow, if it comes at all, is probably months away.
But November is going, going… and the earth here is ripe for her long winter’s nap.
(P.S. Does anyone know what the pale beige seed is called and/or to which tree it belongs? Thousands of them fell here on Thanksgiving Day, filling the air with little propellers that caught the light in such a charming way as they spiralled down, down…. Of course, I tried to photograph their flight, but found it beyond my skill level to catch the golden light, the wind’s caress, the movement like a hundred delicate fairy wings above and around me, the depth of the stillness of the forest coming to rest for the winter.)
While that question is probably a little difficult to answer in a paragraph (or even in a lifetime), I can tell you that my name is Meredith, and that I love to ponder life's mystery and beauty and joys and then write about them. This blog is all about my interactions with Nature during my walks in the woods, visits to Botanical Gardens, in my own small, organic kitchen garden -- and anywhere else I happen to be when inspiration strikes.
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