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A Stroll in the Garden

“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.” ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

Gaillardia Indian Blanket

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Foxglove

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

Phlox

“I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

Phlox

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” ― Karl Lagerfeld

Snapdragon

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” ― Khalil Gibran

Chrysanthemum

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.” ― Paulo Coelho

Russian Sage

“Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.” ― A.D. Posey

Autumn Joy Sedum

“Colours are nature gone wild.” ― Raheel Farooq

Goldenrod

“Color is the soul’s softest whisper, a tender touch in darkness, yet it reveals itself neither through fragility nor delicacy, but through a pronounced courage.” ― Jayita Bhattacharjee

Woolly Bear Caterpillar

“If you’re to choose to paint your life today… What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.” ― Val Uchendu

Woolly Bear Caterpillar

“Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Autumn Crocus

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Autumn Crocus

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A Stroll in the Garden

The Hubby grabbed his camera, and went out to the garden for a few photos to share.

Mama and baby quail are out and about (only one baby in this photo, but there are nine in her family).

Quail

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Papa is ever vigilant!

Quail

This is a red breasted nuthatch. Nuthatches are tree climbers, and we have lots of them.

Red breasted Nuthatch

This nuthatch is climbing on the oak tree. He is coming down to drink from the water fountain on the deck.

Red breasted Nuthatch

I have spent some time canning peaches. I get a lot of satisfaction from this!

Home Canned Peaches

Meanwhile, back out in the garden, there are still some lovely blooms happening!

Pine Tree
Phlox
Larkspur
Foxglove

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A Stroll in the Garden

“I’m more of a weed.” “I like weeds. They’re survivors.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

Hairy Vetch

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“A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Yellow Sweetclover

“A flower doesn’t lose its beauty because weeds mocked it.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

Yellow Sweetclover

“If you see a dandelion as a weed, you’ll spray it. If you see it as a flower, you’ll draw it close, turn it this way and that, and become lost in the colossal burst of slender golden petals that spew sunshine into the darkest of souls. And so, how many things have we sprayed that could have illuminated our souls if we would have let them be more than what we let them be?” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mustard

“Feuds are weeds… Once it’s grown roots, it’s harder to dig up; and it’s far easier to spread.”
― Emory R. Frie, Giant Country

Buckhorn Plantain

“Don’t plant weeds in your garden if you are only hoping for flowers to grow.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

Buckhorn Plantain

“A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.” ― Benjamin Franklin, Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

Field Pennycress/Fanweed

“But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so widely despised, so unloved, killed with every chance we get, they are so pervasive, so seemingly invincible.” ― Carol Vorvain, A fool in Istanbul – Adventures of a self denying workaholic

Field Pennycress/Fanweed

“They’re just weeds, love, they don’t belong anywhere.’ Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. ‘That doesn’t seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.” ― Kathryn Hughes, The Letter

Fireweed

“The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.” ― F.T. McKinstry, Ascarion

Foxglove

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A Stroll in the Garden

Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues. -― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Delphinium

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Delphinium

Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself -― Herman Hesse

St. John's Wort

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. -Morgan Freeman

Feverfew

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. -Deepak Chopra

Feverfew

There’s a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there’s this stillness of your own – I got to know myself. -Melissa Etheridge

Peony

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness. -Eckhart Tolle

Peony

Even in stillness, there is movement. Sometimes it takes time for the molecules of change to shift form. Even when it feels like nothing is happening, transformation is taking place. -Anonymous

Bellflower

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength. -Jared Brock

Bellflower

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself. -Guy Finley

Foxglove

Find a moment of stillness, give your heart a chance to tell you where you really need to be. -Dodinsky

Daisy

Sometimes finding that quiet stillness within us is our highest and greatest aspiration. -Anonymous

Clematis

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A Stroll in the Garden

Boldness doesn’t mean rude, obnoxious, loud, or disrespectful. Being bold is being firm, sure, confident, fearless, daring, strong, resilient, and not easily intimidated. It means you’re willing to go where you’ve never been, willing to try what you’ve never tried, and willing to trust what you’ve never trusted. Boldness is quiet, not noisy. -Mike Yaconelli

Bachelor's Button or Cornflower

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Bellflower

Freedom lies in being bold. -Robert Frost

Jupiter's Beard

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. -William Wordsworth

Jupiter's Beard

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams? -Simon Sinek

Jupiter's Beard

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud. -Paula Cole

Snapdragon

Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples – the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream. -Stephen Vincent Benet

Ageratum

There’s nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things. -Jason Kilar

Ageratum

I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement. -Samuel Larsen

Clematis

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. -Richard C. Armitage

Foxglove

Be bold enough to find the one thing that you are passionate about. It might not be what you were trained to do. But be bold enough to do the one thing. Nobody needs to dig it but you. -Chris Gardner

Foxglove

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