The Circle of Life

Sreejit at The Seeker’s Dungeon has been hosting an event called On Living and Dying. I participated early in the challenge (Am I Contributing to My Living or My Dying?) but I find myself continuing to ponder the subject. I realized that I have lots of photos of birthing and living and some that could probably be considered rebirth, but I had none of dying. Yesterday I remedied that situation.

As I was writing this post, it occurred to me that I might be able to find evidence of rebirth already, and I did! Rebirth is occurring amidst the dying. What a good example of the circle of life.

The Future is Here!

On May 15, I published a post called Anticipating the Future. It was about the abundance of strawberries growing in my garden.

Ten days later the future arrived!

By morning there will be more big red strawberries… and small white and red ones… ready to become my breakfast. Yummm.

Wordless Wednesday

Another Rhododendron

These photos barely give a glimpse of the beauty of this rhododendron. It was stunning.

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Wordless Wednesday

Weekly Photo Challenge: Face

I will never forget how surprised and pleased I was when I first saw the photograph I took of this crow. I loved that the crow and the tree looked black against the background of the white clouds and blue sky. And I loved that I could see the photo as a picture of a crow or as a picture of a person, with a crow perched on one hand, reaching for the sky.

Crow

Written for Weekly Photo Challenge: Face

Working on My Attitude

Looks like I had a visitor during the night.

Photo Credit: Wikimedia

I’m working on my attitude.

Thank you mole for aerating my garden for free.

Thank you mole for aerating my garden for free.

But the flowers looked so beautiful yesterday.

Thank you mole for aerating my garden for free.

But now some of the seedlings have been destroyed

Thank you mole for aerating my garden for free.

That wasn’t supposed to happen.

Obviously it was, because it did.

Thank you mole for aerating my garden for free.

I will get there.

Eventually.

Anticipating the Future!

Last year I harvested a half-a-dozen strawberries from this patch. I was so surprised when I saw this the other day:

I can already taste what is to come!

The Rhododendrons are Blooming!

In 1892, the women of Washington State chose the Coast Rhododendron to be the state flower, but it wasn’t made official until 1959. They are in full bloom now and are so beautiful. Yesterday, I walked around my neighborhood and took photographs of as many colors as I could find.