Joy Is My Goal: Wordless Wednesday Backyard Beauty

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Wordless Wednesday Backyard Beauty

29 comments:

SandyCarlson said...: How nice to find so much beauty right out back!; 6:50 PM
MAGGIE AT COFFEESHOPMAFIA said...: I love backyard art. Thanks for sharing. I love the second frog.; 7:02 PM
WillThink4Wine said...: I just Love the Frog! I want the Frog!; 7:43 PM
Julia Smith said...: I love the bird figure in the blooms.; 8:26 PM
ellen b said...: Marcia those are beautiful photographs you captured in your back yard! Well done...; 8:36 PM
Napaboaniya said...: Nice photos with interesting captions for all of them :) Glad your back doesn't hurt anymore! :); 8:51 PM
david mcmahon said...: I always have time for backyard treasures!; 8:58 PM
Lori said...: Beautiful pics:) I love the colors. They are so clear. Happy WW and thanks for stopping by.; 9:19 PM
Lilli & Nevada said...: there both very beautiful but i like the frog; 9:47 PM
MamaGeek said...: These are beautiful shots. I love garden shots - so serene!; 10:08 PM
Andrea said...: Those are really neat shots...I especially like the frog!; 11:13 PM
Brittany E. said...: I'm defintely diggin' the frog :); 12:02 AM
mama meji said...: I love that cute frog. I am actually collecting frog pieces. :-)

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Makimeji; 2:48 AM
tipsand tricks said...: Beautiful shots. Thanks for dropping by. Happy WW.; 4:34 AM
Mercedes said...: Beautiful photography! Love these! Thanks for visiting mine

Have a great day!; 6:23 AM
Green Eyed Girl said...: I love that frog!!; 7:30 AM
Sue said...: Awww froggie!!!

Great WW, have a good rest of the week :); 8:01 AM
KC said...: very nice..
happy WW; 8:17 AM
Carmi said...: I've always had a soft spot for frogs. They're so approachable and unique. I'll resist asking my wife if we can get a live one for the house. Maybe a lovely sculpture instead. Thanks for the inspiration!

I've posted my Wordless Wednesday contribution here, and hope you'll be able to drop by and say hi:
http://tinyurl.com/4jrczw

Have a wonderful rest-of-WW!

Carmi; 8:19 AM
Tiff said...: Those are great photos!; 9:05 AM
Gabriel said...: I liked the frog. It's beautiful!

My post...

Happy WW!; 10:52 AM
Maya said...: love the frog. But both photos are great shot.Happy WW.; 11:46 AM
catsynth said...: Interesting mixture of natural and human-made beauty.
Happy WW; 12:52 PM
Amor said...: Love your backyards decos.I can't wait for our move next month,I'll be putting the same thing too in my future garden.

I’m in a big wooden shoe

Happy WW!; 1:21 PM
Melanie said...: Great photos!!

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Livin' With Me; 1:22 PM
Ivanhoe said...: I cannot wait for my backyard to bloom! My azaleas are about to "pop". Thanks for visiting and happy WW!; 1:53 PM
Kelsey said...: Gorgeous!; 2:59 PM
Gandalf & Grayson said...: That froggie looks delicious!; 4:52 PM
jams o donnell said...: That frog is wonderful. I want one!; 8:28 AM

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.

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Wordless Wednesday Backyard Beauty

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