Four Strikes

Four more for #100daysofmatchboxdesigns

Tha Hoopoo, The Whale, Best Friend and The Rose

Lotus

“Most people are afraid of suffering.
But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow.
There can be no lotus flower without the mud.”
—THICH NHAT HANH”

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Flexible Blossums

Flexible blossums for June.

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The Bloom

The colossal Spring bloom.

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A garden is grand teacher

A garden is a grand teacher . . .
Above all it teaches entire trust
- Gertrude Jekyll

Black Friday Shopping

My black Friday shopping was for flowers!

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke

Watching Alice

Watching Alice. 

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Celestial Yoga

What we think, we become.
 - Buddha

Time out with Pluto

Everything can be a little better with fur. 

Lucky Day

My lucky day.
Back from the farmer's market.

Welcome June

June has come with it's cool breeze.
A nod to approaching summer. 

Summer appears

For now it feels like Summer. 

Springtime and the land is awakening

The sisters harvest their first greens of spring.
Spring fever arrives. 

Springtime Blooms Love

Springtime blooms love. 

Welcome Home

And now we welcome the new year.
Full of things that have never been.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

The Sheep Dreamed

The sheep often dreamed their wool could be in the shape of a rose!

Japanese lantern flowers

Japanese lantern flowers. They are a lovely perennial in the garden
and indoors dried as flowers or added to a wreath.
I'm watching the last of mine outside before winter creeps in.

Sunflower snow cap

I'm thankful for the last of the sunflowers and the snow
will soon sit upon their heads like a cap.

No rush Friday

It's no rush Friday. Make sure to smell the last of the flowers. 

Happy Friday

A pattern to celebrate the end of the week, happy Friday