Thursday, October 1, 2015

All Before 11am

Five Petals, 2015

Sunshine, a man wearing a cloud t-shirt, an abrupt discussion about celery, loud territorial crows, peppers picked for pickling, waving goodbye, a fat yellow rose that smelled so good, a quiet phoebe, bees on lavender, always bees on lavender (snipping some of those stems and wrapping them in a wet napkin), a hawk landing closer to me than any hawk has before, monarch and little white butterflies, a translucent pink rose with five petals, the few summer squash and tomatoes still hanging on to their vines—unwilling to let summer go, and the tiny wilted purple flower that hitched a ride on the toe of my shoe.

18 comments:

  1. Rushed right over from IG to read this and am deeply satisfied.

    Xo J

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  2. Lovely. Yesterday a hawk landed on a speed limit sign right as I was driving past. Never seen that before!

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    1. Wanting to make sure you didn't get a speeding ticket? ;)

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  3. sounds lovely. I miss summer already.

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    1. I know I'll miss the longer days, but I was ready for the cooler autumnal air.

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  4. Just tore out my last black cherry tomato plant this week. Feeling ready for roasted squash everything.

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  5. I could see each little thing. Beautiful, Denise.
    Thank you for that.

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  6. 'an abrupt discussion about celery' :) flowers on the toe -lovely writing

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