in praise of hankies!

I have a real thing for vintage hankies, they are soft, beautiful and full of well worn wisdom and comfort. Most of the hankies I use every day spent their days in the pockets and hands of women during WWII. I feel awe at the way they have survived for over 60 years in and out of the washer. New Hankies are wonderful too, I feel like I am breaking them in for the next generation! Handkerchiefs are a lovely and relatively dust-free way to help save the world’s old growth forests. Do an ancient tree a favor and buy a Hankie or two dozen!

unsought and unheard
music falling into feeling
like rain in wind...

Lucy Meskill

In praise of Ancient--own root--Roses...

Ancient Roses such as the Moss Rose depicted here are my very favorite types.

Flutter

Flutter
Originally uploaded by ms.lume

Let us unite to become a pollination nation!
Create a pollinator habitat on your acre, in your postage stamp yard or even in a balcony container garden! Everyone can help save the pollinators, help save the world!

gathering energies...

"give me that growth which some perchance deem sleep,
which, by the toil of gathering energies,
their upward way into clear sunshine keep,
until, by heaven's sweetest influences,
slowly and slowly spreads a speck of green..."

James Russell Lowell

windy swinging dark...

"Out in the garden,
Out in the windy, swinging dark,
Under the trees and over the flower-beds,
Over the grass and under the hedge border,
Someone is sweeping, sweeping,
Some old gardener.
Out in the windy, swinging dark,
Someone is secretly putting in order,
Someone is creeping, creeping..."

Katherine Mansfield

half lost...

"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born..."

Emily Carr