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Tag: Flowers

  • Flowers and Fire . . . Smiles and Spirits

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    Fred D
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    Fireweed is named for its ability to rapidly colonize areas burned by fire. The poppy is a symbol of remembrance, and hope for a peaceful future. Wandering the woods today my thoughts drifted into a muddled ambivalence. Past fires have regretfully scorched areas of my life … yet . . . I’m forever grateful having…

  • Stormy Day on the Mountain

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    Fred D
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    “A stormy day on the mountain beats a sunny day at the beach” . . . a touch of  dementia?  . . . perhaps, but hold those Florida Retirement Community flyers 😊. . . enjoyed dodging raindrops hiking up Castle Mountain today. I M Blessed . . . May U B 2 Keep Looking Up…

  • Farewell Flowers

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    Fred D
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    Otra dia, otra adventura is a Spanish adage that translates . . . another day, another adventure . . . every day exploring Creation is. Got in one last Great Smoky Mountains wander today before jumping on the jet to the Last Frontier tomorrow. As always a new adventure awaited, two colorful blooms not yet…

  • Wildflower Reminiscing

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    Fred D
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    Woodland wanderings always envelop my soul with an inexplicable, comforting . . . I’m Home . . . peace. Perhaps it’s because this world is not my final home, and His creation reveals glimpses of my final forever Home. In nearly 8 decades life’s journey has found me calling 8 states home . . .…

  • Teardrops and Raindrops

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    Fred D
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    Tears of joy, and those of sorrow We know not which will fall tomorrow Raindrops upon a flower’s bloom Prompts dismissing teardrops’ gloom Our tears of grief, and those of loss Were all once shed upon a Cross He knows our grief, our pain and sorrow And saves each one to dry tomorrow “You know…

  • Spring’s 1st Lily

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    Fred D
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    A picture is worth a thousand words . . . God’s surpass all words. “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil or spin; and yet I say to you’ even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these”. – Luke 12:27

  • Spring Splendor

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    Fred D
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    On the western side of the Great Smoky Mountains lies Ashville, NC, an eclectic small town and home to the Biltmore Estate. America’s largest private home, George Washington Vanderbilt II had it built during 1880s. A quaint, châteauesque style, 135,280sq. ft., 250-room edifice, it’s tucked away on 8,000 acres. George affectionately referred to it as…