And allergies. It's been very dry. It's going to rain for a few days, that usually helps.
Not a lot of thoughts here except I think I will begin with green. And then, that stray red thread, a reminder of the fire inside. I thought that when I saw it. I think I will leave it beneath what ever gets stitched there. It is often not noticed, but the spark remains. I thought that next.
And I think I will revisit GROW.
Very Japanese… and now all I can see is the dog! The little red thread took me to those pinky flowers at the lower edge of your magnolia photo. We have both those magnolia trees and the white flowering ones here in Virginia. Not in my yard but all around. I had not seen the pink ones before.
I see your cairn and I love the still life created with Soul-O, the watering can and jar.
Spent most of the day working on a flowerbed (weeding!) and now I have a stuffy nose.
Ain’t allergies grand? HAH.
I’m a mess, and I jammed my knee a bit. Resting through the rain. That cairn made it through all that snow!
Just beautiful, Jude!
It’s spring!
love the hand-drawn lines on the white cloth beside the paperless pieced white squares with black thread. the unseen layers are deeply felt. often more “real” that what’s seen. x
What we sense almost needs to be covered, built upon. Before we can explain.
such beautiful photographs and thoughts about spark!
It’s a misty thinking sort of day
I’m so glad to see this. I am just back from a walk near my house and actually took pictures of neighbor’s versions of this tree. I was hoping to determine what kind of tree they were. We have southern magnolia at our house – they are very different. I’m wondering if this is the Loebner magnolia or something else? It is common here in the Atlanta area, beautiful at this time of year, creating carpets of pink on the gray concrete driveways. I think I like the carpet better than the actually blooming tree, and together they are spirit-lifting.
They certainly do drop a lot of petals…
Martha, I believe it is a Magnolia soulangeana “Saucer Magnolia” Ours here along the Gulf Coast bloom in late January thru late February—so lovely!
Thank you, you certainly know yor trees!
i see a dog face in the brown fabric. A sideview. The pin is his eye. And the Magnolia tree looks lovely. Natural beauty!
Ha! So clear now that you’ve pointed him out!
didn’t see that, funny how it is that we see things and then sometimes not.
The soft presence of the magnolia in the landscape soothes. In one of the homes that we owned in CA, we had a huge magnolia tree, the species that has brown coloring on the other side of its green leaves. One year I got ambitious and picked a lot of thel eaves to make a wreath, interspersing the green and the brown leaves. Added a few pine cones, and a simple burlap ribbon, not at all elaborate but beautiful in its own way. To this day, it remains one of my favorite holiday decorations to place on the front door.
The magnolia is beautiful, even if it is a bit ragged. Aren’t we all? Hard frost here this morning, peek-a-boo sun.
April showers taking hold.
And yes we are.
Beautiful tree! Our magnolia trees here have giant white flowers.
I hope you don’t get the storm we had yesterday! Spent some scary moments sheltered in closet from tornado warning and power out for 13 hrs…. not fun 😕
I remember something like that way back d iy ring Hurricane Sandy. Glad you are ok.
That storm was NO fun, at all.
Beautiful blossoms, and, yes, allergies. This too shall pass.
Worse this year. Suddenly.
The magnolia is spectacular! It looks as though there was a bit of fog, but it adds to the magnolia’s beauty. Love the little cairn too.
The tree seems not too healthy in closer inspection just now, might just be the frost. Blossoms are falling unopened.
I once wrote a poem about magnolias which had the phrase “holding all your handkerchiefs.” I think of that phrase whenever I see them. The flowering quince is gorgeous too – love that color.
Ha, perfect.
I like that color too, in the landscape, needs some clean up and pruning. Thorny but the deer still munch on it.
There is a comfort & thrill in knowing that there is more than can be seen, or imagined.
Yes and I need that right now.
Me too.
Oh that Magnolia tree is so beautiful!!!!
A little ragged from frost, but yes!
We had a Magnolia tree in our street, an old Englishman used to live there, after he moved the new owner chopped it down. 🙁
Your photograph reminds me of Japanese paintings.
sometimes I cry when they chop down trees.
It does have a Japanese feel now that you mention it.
The spark beneath … reminds me of the artisans who sculpted or carved works of art in hidden places as cathedrals were being built, never to be seen by human eye. But they were still a presence, weren’t they? Like that tiny red thread, making a difference to the whole.
I love the invisible…