Sunshine & Smiles ~

I do enjoy the daisies

outside, inside

singly or in bunches

all around the house

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"What sunshine is to flowers,

 smiles are to humanity.

 These are but trifles, to be sure;

 but scattered along life's pathway,

 the good they do is inconceivable.”

 Joseph Addison

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they are having

an especially good season

Seasoned ~

leaving behind all

that hinders

for a higher good

"words and feathers

are easily scattered but not

easily gathered up"

anon

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Let your speech at all times
 be gracious (pleasant and winsome),
 seasoned [as it were] with salt,
 [so that you may never be at a loss]
 to know how you ought to answer anyone
 [who puts a question to you].
Colossians 4:6
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Lady Slipper ~

Simplicity is

the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman

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The Lady Slipper

is the

Minnesota State Flower

Wings of Gold ~

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Nature is what we know

Yet have not art to say

 So impotent our wisdom is

 To her simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

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Worms & Such ~

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A Bird came down the Walk –
He did not know I saw –
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,

And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass –
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass.

Emily Dickinson

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she built her nest atop an

 outdoor light fixture

and now she is busy feeding

her little ones

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I have no idea what kind

 of bird she is.

He Speaks ~

I will hear what the

 Lord will speak in me:

for He will speak peace.

Psalm 85:8

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Puzzling ~

 

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."

Hazel Nicholson

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but they certainly

keep one wondering

 

Repose ~

"Most of the things we need

 to be most fully alive

 never come in busyness.

 They grow in rest."

Mark Buchanan

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If Poppies Dreamt ~

"Remember, remember,
this is now, and now, and now.
Live it, feel it, cling to it.
I want to become acutely aware
of all I've taken for granted."

Sylvia Plath

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Breathing In ~

"And 'tis my faith,

that every flower enjoys

the air it breathes."

William Wordsworth

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breathe deep
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