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This avatar is a dandelion in the morning dew.
I wish I knew how to put it up for a larger view.

Love,
Betty

It is a stunning picture Betty!

Everything is a matter of perspective. A beautiful flower - and a bane to those desiring a "perfect" yard of grass.

Today a friend told me a nice story about perspective. "Just think," she said, "even though we may have days of rain and storms, we can always fly high enough to see the sun. The sun is always there; we just have to look high enough."

That's beautiful Diane. And reminds me of something too. When my sister and I had our first house together, we replaced the lawn with shrubs, low maintenance perennials and stone work. I really loved it, and when something we liked sprang up between the rocks, we'd make a little clearing and add compost so it could grow. The things we didn't want, we pulled out. It cost about a big bundle to move all that rock in, but we loved it.

Oddly, the folks that bought the house removed all the rock, and replaced it with lawn. That seemed kind of backward to me!

A delightful, retired elderly couple lived across the street from me several years ago. Their yard was without grass, just beautiful natural shrubs and flowers that they tended (like your garden in the rocks). It was prolific. I had an ugly yard. One day there was a pile of plants for me when I arrived home from work. I planted them. The next day there were more. Soon the neighbor was planting her beautiful cuttings in my yard, expanding my natural area and reducing the grass area. It bloomed and spread out, a bit unorganized but naturally beautiful.

One day, another neighbor offered to fix my grass and some other parts of my yard that needed tending. I thanked him and said, "sure." His yard was elegant. One day when I arrived from work, he had pulled out all that the neighbor had planted and replaced it with a brick outline and shrubs that all looked alike. I cried.

Betty Fasig wrote:

This avatar is a dandelion in the morning dew.
I wish I knew how to put it up for a larger view.

Open a (free) account at www.photobucket.com.
Upload the picture.
Once uploaded, four boxes with code will appear under the photo. The bottom box is "img." Copy and paste that code here.
Done.

Betty, you are our William Blake. I thought of this poem immediately
when I read your post. The more I reread it, the more I saw you as our
own champion of innocence betrayed.:

Quote :

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
(from "Auguries of Innocence")

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/auguries-of-innocence/

Ann

A weed is an unwanted plant. Strange how weeds proliferate and wanted plants require more nurturing. Betty can see beauty where others see weeds. If I were reincarnated as a plant or animal, I would want to be at Betty's house.

You are so right, Abe. What we domesticate is often harmful as well. All these modified foods are changing the very nature of what it is to be human. Scarey.

Betty,

I would like to see you.

Love ya,

Alice

Thanks LC.

Love,
Betty

Beautiful!

Gorgeous!

Ooouh!

Ann

Dear Alice,
Here I am!

Love,
Betty

Beautiful! You look very young.

I love your outfit too.

Betty, that's dandelion is spectacular!
Diane, I would have cried too. I got a lump when I read your note.

When Mum and Dad were in England many years ago I was looking after their garden and putting in bedding plants and there were a couple of shrubby things that looked to me as though they had died over the winter, so I dug them up. When they returned, I learned that I had dug up his carnations, which tend to revive a little later than the rest of the garden and were probably fine when I dug them out and killed them. Whoops.