Tag: photography

Pathways of my Mind

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 I step onto the pathway, I check my footings sure

I’ve taken many turnings, as sure there will be more

Check to see I am grounded, I want to stay on track

I focus where I want to go, I can as easily turn back

I have to watch for pitfalls, my mind I must direct

 To remember where I go, at the time that I reflect

My whole life is pathways, of one sort of a kind

The real and the emotional, so many of my mind

I’ll take another step today, to grow a little more

A pathway will present again, of that I can be sure.

 

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A sidewalk to me is unfamiliar, I don’t think I’ve ever really used the term even in short the time I spent living in the US and Canada. For todays prompt of I’m changing it to pathway and I hope you’ll forgive me, but pathway is more familiar and I’m not jumping off my pathway to walk the sidewalk 😉

 

The Pull of Love

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In a magic moment, I found what it was to love. 

I did not find it in a book or in the skies above.

I found it the memories, the ones that I hold dear.

If only I had know back then, what today is clear.

Love is not so obvious, it takes you by surprise.

Returns as you are unaware, comes back  in disguise.

It creeps up when your sleeping, or in another land

Then finally you feel it’s pull and you understand

Lovely Hydrangea 

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I love these hydrangeas, particularly the purple as colour speaks to me of love, spirituality and healing. Each little petal is an individual but connected to the main, a bit like the different aspects of our own human souls. Also how we interconnect with each other in groups. I learn so much about life from nature, it’s amazing when you really look and find the similarities.

I learnt that soil they are planted in dictates the richness of colour, a bit like environment does with us.

These come from my Dad’s garden in Normandy, so they also remind me of him. Each year I bring a bunch home to dry. I learnt the easiest way was for them to just sit in the vase once the water has dried up.

Those petals look so comfortable and soft for bugs to hide and sleep don’t you think 😊



These dry ones are not so soft but perfect for spiders 😉