The Natural Beauty of Your Neighborhood

by compound complex 293 Replies latest jw friends

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Dear Chickpea:

    Thank you so much for taking us, your readers held by rapt attention, on a walk with you and girlz.

    I am thoroughly enchanted by your lyrical prose and your quietly humorous juxtaposing of the sentient elements [humans and beasties] against those inanimate [i.e., the keys and coin keeping each other company is choice]. Your description of the locale and how, at the appropriate time, key players entered either stage right or stage left had me spellbound. Why? Because I was with you - in my mind's eye - trudging along. However, I was largely staring vacantly at the clouds and picking an occasional posie at such a time when, perhaps, I might have been watching my path and had spotted that gorgeous bloom.

    When again shall we walk?

    CoCo

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Walking seems to be doing me some good. Ten pounds of unseemly fat appear behind me now.

    I confine my promenades mostly to the 'hood, as it's here. There's so much to see that gets overlooked during a drive-by, and hoofing it requires no expenditures whatsoever [I hate to waste gas driving unnecessarily because I miss so much while behind the wheel]. I catch the heady fragrance of the overpowering, sensory-ambushing oleander, whose huge stands thoroughly surround road walker me with color - hot pink, scarlet, salmon, white - and that thoroughly incapacitating, intoxicating scent.

    Nerium oleander in flower

    When I stated that there are no expenditures whatsoever, I meant financially. Naturally, I am spending freely of time and energy. A flagon of H20 carried on my person and sugary and succulent blackberries sampled en route to my destination [home again, home again eventually] keep my spirits and corporeal self at high level alert. Initially, I gave no thought to hydration; however, my walking at all hours of the day taught me the necessity of drink, especially at that crackling-hot spot of day marked by Old Sol's zenith dominating the deep and gorgeous azure.

    Eight miles yesterday - 10 today?

    Perhaps.

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    Morning CoCo. I'm irritated with myself. I did not take my camera on my walk today, and I saw the most beautiful pure white Heron! Also a bunny, and two bookend medium sized white cats. Ohh and a gaggle of Jehovah's Witnesses!

    I've been cultivating the friendship of a squirrel in my yard. He's become very forward, and I know he would take the peanuts I have been offering, out of my fingers. If I could make myself let him. I had a small tree full of nectarines in early summer, and one day I went to see how they were coming along. There wasn't one fruit to be seen. Not on the ground nor in the tree. When I told my mother about my little friend, she said "Ohhh that's the little Jasper that got the nectarines". So he is now Jasper.

    CIMG2088-2.jpg picture by beksbksCIMG2099-1.jpg picture by beksbks

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    sandy

    Pastel by my friend Sandy

    sandy

    and another

    sandy

    and another... all of New England....

    Avon

    a photo of Blanchard's Tavern Museum right down the street from my home...

    Coffee

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    This one has a real Maxfield Parrish quality to it

    sandy

  • coffee_black
    coffee_black

    Sandy is really good... you can google her: Sandy Wadlington. Her own website doen't have much on it, but she is represented by several galleries...so there's lots to see. She lives in New Hampshire... We graduated high school together...and have stayed friends.

    Coffee

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    I absolutely love New England. I'd move there in a minute. Will likely end up there at some point.

  • ninja
    ninja

    this is a photo of my cousin jim...... we were fishing at otter ferry....loch fyne.....yes I did outfish him totally...as usual.....he he

  • jeanniebeanz
    jeanniebeanz

    I used to love the Agapanthus that grew everywhere in Newark, Ca by our home. Too hot here in Houston, though!

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thank you, Beks, Coffee, Ninja and Jeannie, for your contributions - beautiful [but where's Jim?]!

    And hello to naughty, saucy Jasper.

    CoCo

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