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Our garden buzzes and hums with the voices of hundreds of hungry bees and wasps.
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The butterflies silently float by, elusive and aloof. A dragonfly lights on a petal, watching me, patiently posing while I take his portrait.
Our garden is filled with such beauty this week. We are enjoying the butterflies and bunnies, expanding perennials, trees clothed in their summer colors, expanding ferns and flowers. Oh, so many flowers opening each day.
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As we celebrate the summer solstice, our garden is still becoming fuller and fuller with each passing day. Vines grow so fast we wonder whether they are under some magical, summertime spell. Clusters of grapes on their wild vines swell, well out of reach, in the tops of some dogwood and rose of Sharon trees. Our family of cardinals swoops through the garden, clearly playing tag, and watching for the opportune snack.
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I wander about with my camera, trying to capture a portrait here and there to savor the beauty unfolding all around us. It is so much bigger and more expansive than my tiny lens will capture. And so I focus on the details, the tiny bits of beauty we might otherwise overlook.
Here are six portraits from our garden today.
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Woodland Gnome 2019
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“When magic through nerves and reason passes,
Imagination, force, and passion will thunder.
The portrait of the world is changed.”
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Many thanks to the wonderful ‘Six on Saturday’ meme sponsored by The Propagator.
Forest Garden 