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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Pushing Through

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Up through the rich fertile soil of the garden the strong hyacinth grows like a pineapple’s headdress the feathered leaves a harbinge...

Loaded with Pollen

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Strawberry Cheesecake

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A Phoenix Pine

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Rising from the ashes the decaying stump rich with moss a tree to supplant its forebear’s life run out in the moist wood living carcas...

A Tulip Spade

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Ace of spades, in living flesh, silken skin of the shy tulip Petals praying clasped together for the warming rays before unfurling, ...

Dew on the Tulip

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Perfect droplets cling to the purple skin the liquid flesh of the tulip bloom holding on, for moments more before the melting away in ...

Furry Fiddleheads

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Their Heritage

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So right to honor, to pay tribute to thank them, before Pentecost before the joining of new members so noble an example, a witness, they ...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

The Offering Basket

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Passing the basket casual, familial in the sanctuary among friends in the night holding it reverently waiting while the band plays si...

Offertory

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Special music wafting to the rafters into our hearts clear notes, loving song filling the sanctuary, as we join together to give a lit...

Bright Colors in the Garden (5/6/07)

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Discretionary

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Little gifts of the heart thank you gifts giving in procession, in unison in communion As we come forward to sup at Your table, we pau...

The Undeterred Spirit

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The will of the way to spread the word good news on their lips in the street, the Temple, the jail, wherever they were, undeterred spir...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

A Princess Pine

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Nascent Mayflowers

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New Leaves

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New sunlight first rays in the morning cutting over the tree line down through the woods into the yard Catching the outer end the edge...

Three in the Front Garden

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Dew on the Blooms

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Those are Not jelly beans

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A stump no more

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Friday, May 11, 2007

May Showers

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We needed the break the change back from the heat too soon for the eighties scorched and hot cloudbursts, sheets of rain giving way to ...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Coming Thunder - revised

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First storm of the year thickening sky, heavy air darkening below the blue weight on the limbs the leaves turned again the stagnant sti...

Coming Thunder

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First storm of the year thickening sky, heavy air darkening below the blue weight on the limbs the leaves turned again the stagnant sti...

Yellow Dust

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A sheen of yellow on the glass the hood, the roof, the ground oak tree above, golden below heavy flour of dust wipers push aside, puff...

Second-grade Cell

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A flip of the phone, just out the doors, five feet outside, check for messages, invitations, calls while he was busy busy in the schoo...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

A Fern Emerging

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Waking, stretching casting off sleep, cocoon of its slumber awakening to the dawn of spring, new life in the fresh air breathing in t...

In the Heart of the Tulip

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Daffodil and Tulip

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Blue Hyacinth, Green Leaves

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Like mighty aloe vera leaves protecting the cluster of blue within their protective quills the green leaves wrap 'round the blue hya...

Pansies

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Fragrance to match pallets of colors thrown together on the mouse ears of the petals bright smells intoxicating in their simplicity ...

They had Shades

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The three men of the family poised to cross the street ready to drop off the big brother at first grade, at the school but they waited ...

Fragrant Lilac

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That sweet subtle wonderful smell of spring, of renewal, of beauty, in the tiny flowers, the bunches bundles of pristine blooms purple...
Saturday, May 05, 2007

Ruth - Summa Cum Laude

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Fuzzy Fiddles

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Captured Blossoms

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A clutch of apple blossoms nestled in the drinking glass a bit of beauty on the kitchen windowsill Sharing the rays of sunlight with ot...

Emerging Fern

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A Stoic Pine

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A Frozen Bud

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Red

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Tongues of Yellow

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Clematis on a Rusty Fence

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A Bloom of Clover - 073106

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Dragonfly closeups - 073106

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Shanequa - Nursery Rhyme Idol Star - April 2007

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Shanequa - 7/3/06

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A Frame Filled with Purple

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Up through the mulch

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Crocus without the flash

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Monday, April 30, 2007

Her Achievement

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For some, a piece of paper a momentary achievement for her, a different moment, importance to the day. A wall, a barrier, a breaking thr...
Friday, April 27, 2007

In the Jungle

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Dorcas Rising

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Like Lazarus before her she rose at the command of the shepherd But this time, it was the new leader, the follower now in power no lon...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Purple Crocuses in the light of the flash

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A Spring Rain Song

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He was hidden in the nascent emerging buds of the lilac branches, singing his ornate, urgent, compelling song to the back of the hall t...

Hydroponic

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Living fibers hairs and legs tendrils, radiating outward downward to the depths like albino house centipedes bursting for attention in...