She's A Queen, With A Chipped Wing

Creatures

We marvel

While there by our side..

Is our delight,

Or watch them gather

In the wild

Barely conscious of their flight

Just like the lilies

They don't spin ..

No, never driven to introspection

So simple

&

Sublime

With no regard

To how they'll generate

Cause they don't labor

&

They don't spin..

They just manifest devine~

I Like To Stretch

For Weekend Reflections (thank you James) & Monochrome Weekend (thank you Aileni)

Break-Update

The Garden-

And about that break-

(This is the before shot-and you can see it's all overgrown. I figured this will give me a little push being I'm posting this! I'll continue to update when I notice a transformation, ha. I'm not waiting to post until Summer as I originally thought (lol)- but will be back blogging something on the weedends (at least until I get something accomplished out there if I can?

Hopefully I'll produce something delectable..but figured it should be edible? I'd like to post a (before garden photo before I do so (just did).
Anyway, Who can stay away from blogging forever?
I appreciate all of your thoughts and inspiration.

Macro On Vision

Vision
Is your faith
In the midst
Of decay

(maybe better enlarged)

Heb 11:1-
"Now faith
Is the substance
Of things hoped for,
The evidence of things not seen"

There For Today

Thanks to Aileni at Monochrome Weekend-

(you might like to enlarge them)

Shadows grow
But they don't stay
Like the flowers
There here today..
Gone before
You look away

Days will pass
&
You'll look back
It's just the way..
So give them flowers
There for today-

She Counts The Lashes

Dark eyes

Bleed

In delicate lines
She Counts the Lashes
That swell
Upon her back
&
Branch
Across her spine
Like some faraway map

In present time

They come to rest
With scars she'll carry
Hidden
Beneath a sack
Too cumbersome
For everyday tasks

(Just one of many)

Mulberry Season!

I wish I took this one, ha..

Beautiful, delicate blossoms above..and the leaves resemble the lei around that man's neck. But this photo is known as "Stink Maile" -for a good reason, because it's the nastiest vine you'll ever find (in these parts) growing around your pad.. also, it obviously resembles true Maile.-
On the other hand, Maile (pronounced MY-lĕ) in Hawaiian), is one of the few vines endemic to the Islands-
Hawaii lei tradition
found here-
These flowers remind me of Spring, which isn't too far away..the lavender and yellow Lantana below are actually a ground cover.

I'm leaving a recipe following the macro shots of the new mulberries budding- (not just for the chicks-lol) I like this one but I'm sure Strawberry/Mulberry would be really good as well-



Mulberry & Rhubarb:

Pie w/Crust

2 1/2 cups mulberries
1 1/2 cups finely chopped rhubarb
1 1/4 cups raw sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie

Mix together
mulberries, rhubarb, sugar, and flour.
Pour into unbaked 9 inch pie shell. Dot filling with butter and add top crust.
Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake until pie is done, about 30 minutes. Enjoy-

Crust:
1 & 1/4 Cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
1/4 Cup ice water
In a lg. bowl, combine flour & salt, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water, a TB at a time-until mixture forms a ball. Wrap in plastic then refrigerate 4 hrs or overnight. Roll out to fit a 9" pie. Enjoy-
Now I use the next crust here for cheesecake..don't know why you couldn't, but I'm used to winging things?

1 c. all-purpose flour
1/4 c. light brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 c. pecans, finely chopped
1/4 c. plus 2 tbsp. butter, melted
16 to 18 pecan halves


Cheers-

Morning Glory, A Fairy & The Cup

In The Cup

~
Let us not gaze
At petals-
Long been cast
Or linger with sorrow
What comes with tomorrow

But drink in the sunshine
Along with the dew
&

Scatter for others
Who briefly we pass
In one phase or another
Along life's path-

(His Birthday)

(maybe enlarge)
(He just made nine years)


Look of surprise when the laundry arrived?
(I caught this one below with my cell phone ..but just look closely on the edge)-