garden days

bumble bee in the Hosta

a natural naturalist :)

close up of N's new buddy

clustered seed head on jack in the pulpit

allium (green onion) great for bee colony health

monarda (bee balm) the bees and hummingbirds LOVE it

This is a huge rock that N and I like to sit on at the park.

It's at the edge of a pond that is home to lots of frogs and turtles.

The grooves in the rock look like a neat drawing.

Weekword- Dream

When you dream, what do you dream about?

Music and Lyrics by - Bare Naked Ladies

"When You Dream"

With life just begun, my sleeping new son
has eyes that roll back in his head
They flutter and dart, he slows down his heart
and pictures a world past his bed
It's hard to believe
As I watch you breathe
Your mind drifts and weaves

When you dream,
what do you dream about?
When you dream,
what do you dream about?
Do you dream about
music or mathematics
or planets too far for the eye?
Do you dream about
Jesus or quantum mechanics
or angels who sing lullabies?

His fontanelle pulses with lives that he's lived
With memories he'll learn to ignore
And when it is closed, he already knows
he's forgotten all he knew before
But when sleep sets in
history begins
But the future will win

When you dream,
what do you dream about?
When you dream,
what do you dream about?
Are they colour or black and white,
Yiddish or English
or languages not yet conceived?
Are they silent or boisterous?
Do you hear noises just
loud enough to be perceived?
Do you hear Del Shannon's "Runaway" playing
on transistor radio waves?
With so little experience,
your mind not yet cognizant
Are you wise beyond your few days?
When you dream,
what do you dream about?
When you dream,
what do you dream about?

Visit Elisabeth's blog for more week word interpretations of DREAM

Week WORD- TRANSPARENT

Week WORD- TRANSPARENT

The following are playing week word (so far)

Click them to see their interpretations unveiled on Friday.

I can't wait to see!

Veja cecilia

UpsidedownBee

TEXTILSPANIELN

hanna-happenings

PEEKADOO

nathalie et cetera

ensalada

malin Nuhma

Please leave a comment if you would still like to join in.

Elisabeth will be hosting for the new word on Monday.

I very much wanted to make a painting but time didn't allow...

I still plan to. Until then,

This is our Catalpa tree. It has delicate, white, orchid-like flowers

which are blooming now and big beautiful heart-shaped leaves.

I love how the sun tries to shine through them.

Which is where I make the connection to week word. :)

transparent.

I learned that the Catalpa worm or caterpillar that lives on these trees

is a favorite bait for some anglers.

Some even propagate Catalpas and have orchards of them

just to harvest the caterpillars for bait.

I just like to look at ours and watch it change with the seasons

at its own pace.

Catalpas have long seed pods that hang down from the tree.

The pods split open in the spring releasing hundreds of feathery,

propeller like seeds that blow around everywhere.

Then the pods finally drop in late summer.

Unlike most trees, the Catalpa is the last to grow its leaves in the spring.

Its foliage does not change color like other deciduous trees.

Instead it drops all of its large green leaves in one day

usually after the first hard frost.

It makes a big mess of huge leaves in our driveway,

but we only have to clean up after it once :)

Week WORD- TRANSPARENT

Hanna has asked me to host this week's weekword. Thank you Hanna for the opportunity! Hopefully I am not breaking the rules here but I thought I might post the weekword a bit early to give people a little more time to ruminate and hopefully join in (including myself). Summer is a busy time. Enjoy it and don't forget to take a little of that time for yourselves and those who are near and dear.

Please post a comment if you would like to join in and I will link to you on Friday. Also, if you would like to host next week, Say "I".

WeekWORD- Transparent

Weekword- now

Week WORD- 'Now'

This is a tricky one for an image...

I would continuously have to freeze time in stills and choose one to represent 'now',

but now is fleeting so how can I do that?

Maybe a photograph of a Dandelion with its seeds blowing in the wind,

or a clock with no hands,

or and single grain of sand in an hourglass

in suspended animation...

these are some of the visuals I'm getting

but what really comes to mind

is an excerpt from

Kahlil Gibran's ---The Prophet---

------ And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time?

And he answered:

You would measure time in the measureless

and the immeasurable.

You would adjust your conduct and even

direct the course of your spirit according to

hours and seasons.

Of time you would make a stream upon

whose bank you would sit and watch its

flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's

timelessness,

And knows that yesterday is but today's

memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

And that which sings and contemplates

in you is still dwelling within the

bounds of that first moment which scattered

the stars into space.

Who among you does not feel that his

power to love is boundless?

And yet who does not feel that very love,

though boundless, encompassed within the

center of his being, and moving not from

love thought to love thought, nor from

love deeds to other love deeds?

And is not time even as love is, undivided

and spaceless?

But if in your thought you must measure

time into seasons, let each season encircle

all the other seasons,

And let today embrace the past with

remembrance and the future with longing.--------

And so, these are the images that I choose to embrace,

season to season, past, future, 'NOW'

and 'whenever' have you~

Thank you to Hanna for the opportunity to reflect on this weekWORD. Visit her for more links to other interpretations of ---NOW.---