
Emperor Tulips naturalized in the front garden, we planted a good load of bulbs oh about 12 years ago easily ) nothing for years, then in 2006 they started popping up one then a couple, we are up to a whopping 6 now. :D
These are extremely fragrant what a lovely bonus when I was shooting them yesterday...xx
Above they barely touch, but undermined
Down to their deepest source,
Admiring you shall find
Their roots are intertwined
Insep'rably.
Thoreau
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L on B
Dedicated in memorial to
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)
He was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.
He is best known for his book
Walden a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings,
and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is considered to be one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American.
The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance.
Published in
1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor
Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. (see wikipedia 4 more) • Walden Pond is lovely place indeed.
thank you for your friendship.
Friendship
I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world,
Sole meat and sweetest drink,
And close connecting link
Tween heaven and earth.
I only know it is, not how or why,
My greatest happiness;
However hard I try,
Not if I were to die,
Can I explain.
I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
But when the time arrives,
Then Love is more lovely
Than anything to me,
And so I'm dumb.
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,
But only thinks and does;
Though surely out 'twill leak
Without the help of Greek,
Or any tongue.
A man may love the truth and practise it,
Beauty he may admire,
And goodness not omit,
As much as may befit
To reverence.
But only when these three together meet,
As they always incline,
And make one soul the seat,
And favorite retreat,
Of loveliness;
When under kindred shape, like loves and hates
And a kindred nature,
Proclaim us to be mates,
Exposed to equal fates
Eternally;
And each may other help, and service do,
Drawing Love's bands more tight,
Service he ne'er shall rue
While one and one make two,
And two are one;
In such case only doth man fully prove
Fully as man can do,
What power there is in Love
His inmost soul to move
Resistlessly.
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Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side,
Withstand the winter's storm,
And spite of wind and tide,
Grow up the meadow's pride,
For both are strong
Above they barely touch, but undermined
Down to their deepest source,
Admiring you shall find
Their roots are intertwined
Insep'rably.
Thoreau
7 comments:
beautiful image you captured & saw M~, great work indeed, miss it so.
be well, wiwt
xx
Glad you like it A, do you mean you miss
shooting? I miss seeing what you shoot too..
thank you for the lovely comment... you as 2
be well .. wiwwy.
xx
both, hun; both - thanks for helping.
goodness I wonder what I meant with "you as 2"
sometimes my writing leaves so much to be desired!
Not sure how but always happy to help..
fairness update- i suppose I can't expect too much @ 3:35 AM after my day of stress .. ;D haaaa I like that
fairness update ;))
Oh love, your page won't let me comment on the hidden post, but I beg you stay close, we will speak very soon, ILU still so.
❤u
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