Living in the Gap
June 2, 2012 -June 8, 2012
Easter Lily
Pollen scatters like confetti across a shadowed floor. One bug wiggles its wings as it wallows within shoots of sustenance while a smaller bug clings to a heart of hope.
Coleus
Nature’s princess sports a dress made with the colors of life and accessorizes with a tiara of sapphires.
Coneflowers
Flinging their purple petals to the ground, they lift their round golden bodies to the sun.
Gladiolas
In their ruffled party dresses, they pile atop on another. With the weight of the world on its shoulders, the stem threatens to snap sending the girls tumbling like dominoes.
Caladium
Sparkling like a diamond in the sun, a single drop of water rests in the bloody palm of a Caladium leaf.
Gardenia
Like a bride walking down the aisle, milky layers of fabric fall from her waist and float behind her. Perfume trails her like a bridal train.
A volunteer. Perhaps a Sunflower?
This little gypsy girl, a lost soul, wanders about the garden. She twists and rises, dips and turns, freely roaming to reach the sky. We let her plant herself where she wishes as we think she just might be the promise of the sun.
Suzicate, your writing is exquisite. I almost caught the fragrance of the gardenia when I saw that photo and read your words! Spectacular!
Thanks, Linda. I’m so delighted to have so many fragrances and colorful blooms about my yard this year.
Every one of these photos is more beautiful than its predecessor! I wouldn’t have believed that possible. I can practically smell the gardenia from here, and the coleus with its sapphire tiara is so striking. I never realized Easter lilies have a tiny heart at their inner being — how appropriate! Thanks for sharing your world of beauty!
Absolutely appropriate…I was wondering if anyone would comment on that part…thank you!
Love this post! How pretty inside the Easter Lily, love the heart. Goldfinches are known to pluck off the purple petals of coneflower as they eat the seeds. Unusual color of gladiolus–my mom always had a row of them in “her” garden. Actually it was the edge of “Dad’s” garden, but he thought it was a waste of time to grow something one couldn’t eat.
Great descriptions: ruffled party dresses, and the bride simile. Nice!
They bloom a kind of greenish yellow and then turn a pretty yellow in a few days. Your dad sounds “sensible”!
Beautiful! The caladium’s diamond is perfect. I love green gladiolas – they make me think of what aliens would grow. And I’ve seen the lilies my whole life, smelled them, loved them, and NEVER noticed the heart in the center. Thank you for that very special gift today.
Honestly I’d never noticed until I saw the bug clinging to the edge of it. You are welcome.
I am having scrolling wp photo gallery like this. If I press comment then it is OK and can scroll properly. Coleus grows like wildfire in Miami but it needs plenty of water in end part of summer blazing heat here.
Oh how lovely to see these growing everywhere!
Absolutely beautiful photos and beautiful prose to accompany them.
♥Spot
Thank you, Spot!
I love the way you grow your words as beautiful as your flowers.
Awe, you’re so sweet!
Suzi, my friend, looking at these stunning….and I mean STUNNING flower photos and reading your words, put a TOTAL smile on my face!
What a delightfully, magical post!
I love these words….
“Coleus
Nature’s princess sports a dress made with the colors of life and accessorizes with a tiara of sapphires.’
How beautiful you described that image!
The photo of the Caladium is incredible!
And could smell that Gardenia from here!
Have a lovely weekend, my friend! And thank you for sharing natures beauty!
X
So happy to make you smile, Ron.
Your garden is STUNNING! Love, love, love! I have a very nice weed garden going right now. It is embarrassing.
Thanks, Angelia…and there are many more different flowers I didn’t post! And the weeds are a constant battle!
Thanks for sharing your garden … I just planted my annuals, we don’t have as much time to enjoy them as you do. My perennial bleeding hearts are huge this year and very happy, my irises did not like the snow and cold this Spring. But, I have been checking out all of the wildflowers … they are a joy this time of year.
Looking forward to seeing some pics of your wildflowers.
Your garden is amazing! Our yard is bland and dry and will remain so throughout the summer (we do our part to conserve water, so even the grass gets just enough to keep a little green.) In elementary school, our teacher gave us numerous coleus plants. All of them died within weeks. It was nice to see what a healthy coleus should look like!
I’m enjoying it before the drought hits.
Such gorgeous colours.You make me anxious for the flowers in my garden to bloom. We’re a bit slower this far north but we eventually get there.
I’m sure it’s gorgeous and well appreciated when it comes.
Thanks for sharing your photos and thoughts with us.
Thank you for reading, Christine.
Oh so lovely, the pictures and the words! Thank you for sharing.
You are welcome, Carol.
Reading this was a blessed moment of meditation. Namaste.
So glad it brought you peace, Joss.
Stunning photographs.
Thanks, Rudri.
I absolutely loved this post! The photos themselves were gorgeous, but your poetic interpretations of them just made me want to see more. By the time I got to the last one I was trying to guess what you would see it as. Of course, you totally fooled me with that one. My favorite was the heart inside the lily. I never realized that before. Thanks, Suzi!
Such beautiful photos! And I love the image of the gladiolas ladies in their dresses – I had a poetry book when I was little with flowers and their fairies who lived in them, who dressed like them. I can just picture the gladiolas fairies in their dresses!
Awe, that sounds like such a sweet book.
Wow! It looks like your garden is coming right along this summer. Gorgeous blooms. I love the heart in the lily.
It is coming along; just waiting for the beebalm and black eyed Susans to bloom!
Ha, ha, ha! Splendid. The pictures themselves are beautiful, but your descriptions give them additional life and beauty!