trudette

superstition

2007-11-20T17:33:00.000Z

“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!”
Dr. Seuss

2007-11-20T16:15:00.000Z

new address

2007-08-04T11:16:00.000Z

This Blog has moved to this address :
http://trudette.blogspot.com/

Love's truest language

2007-07-25T17:52:00.000Z

Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,

Like the divining rods of Magi old,

Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,

But love--strong love, that never can decay!

Park Benjamin,

Sonnet--Flowers, Love's Truest Language

Fayette

2007-07-24T19:54:00.000Z

Meet Fayette the sweet little fairy

The dear Forget-me-not

2007-07-23T17:19:00.000Z

FORGET-ME-NOT

COULD every blossom find a voice
And sing a strain to me,
I know where I would place my choice,
Which my delight should be.
I would not choose the lily tall,
The rose from musky grot,
But I would still my minstrel call
The blue Forget-me-not.

And I on mossy bank would lie,
Of brooklet, rippling clear;
And she of the sweet, azure eye,
Close at my listening ear,
Should sing into my soul a strain
Might never be forgot,
So rich with joy, so rich with pain--
The blue Forget-me-not.

Ah! every blossom hath a tale,
With silent grace to tell,
From rose that reddens to the gale
To modest heather-bell;
But oh! the flower in every heart
That finds a sacred spot
To bloom, with azure leaves apart,
Is the Forget-me-not.

Love plucks it from the mosses green
When parting hours are high,
And places it Love's palms between
With many an ardent sigh;
And bluely up from grassy graves
In some loved churchyard spot
It glances tenderly and waves--
The dear Forget-me-not.

Crawford, Isabella Valancy (1850-1887)

a tiny little flower

2007-07-19T17:14:00.000Z

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower

could preoccupy a person so completely

that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.... -

Sophie Scholl

love is a flower

2007-07-18T17:05:00.000Z

“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms,

Without the aid of the seasons.”
Kahlil Gibran

discovery

2007-07-17T14:32:00.000Z

“Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery”

wings like a dove

2007-07-14T18:41:00.000Z

“And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!

for then would I fly away, and be at rest.”
Bible

a new love

2007-07-13T17:16:00.000Z

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite,

and you do not know what it will bring back,

a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
Anais Nin

Love is the flower

2007-07-12T18:04:00.001Z

“Love is the flower of life,

and blossoms unexpectedly and without law,

and must be plucked where it is found,

and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
D.H. Lawrence

geeky

2007-07-11T17:17:00.001Z

“To learn to read is to light a fire;

every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo

single flower

2007-07-10T17:58:00.001Z

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you,

I could walk forever in my garden.

Claudia Ghandi

lovebird

2007-07-09T16:47:00.000Z

See how much I love you

Geeky bird

2007-07-08T18:10:00.000Z

“What a pair of spectacles is here!”
William Shakespeare

I'm a little bird

2007-07-07T20:29:00.000Z

“I'm youth, I'm joy,

I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
James Matthew Barrie

I am loveable

2007-07-06T18:44:00.000Z

I am love, I am loveable, I am loved, and I love.
Sofia Diaz

taking care

2007-07-05T18:40:00.000Z

“We also want more people to learn about

the happiness of taking care of a little animal in need.”
Zhou Min

Faith of the heart

2007-07-04T16:30:00.000Z

I'm going where my heart will take me

I've got faith to believe

I can do anything

I've got strength of the soul

And no one's gonna bend or break me

I can reach any star

I've got faith

Faith of the heart
Rod Stewart

sweet mirage

2007-07-03T18:00:00.000Z

“Give me the old enthusiasms back,

Give me the ardent longings that I lack,

--The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth,

The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .”
William Wetmore Story

twist

2007-07-02T19:15:00.000Z

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henri Matisse

a living flower

2007-06-30T18:38:00.000Z

A flowerless room is a soulless room,

to my way of thinking;

but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

(Vita Sackville-West)

With a twist and a twirl

2007-06-29T18:19:00.000Z

“Lithe and long as the serpent train,

Springing and clinging from tree to tree,

Now darting upward,

now down again,

With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.”
William Gilmore Simms

camouflage-hidden in the meadow's grass

2007-06-27T18:09:00.000Z

“Landscapes have a language of their own,

expressing the soul of the things,

lofty or humble,

which constitute them,

from the mighty peaks

to the smallest of the tiny flowers

hidden in the meadow's grass”

white camouflage

2007-06-26T17:27:00.000Z

“Oft when the white,

still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart,

I have felt it like a glory in my heart”
Edwin Markham

The sweet forget-me-nots

2007-06-21T19:11:00.000Z

The sweet forget-me-nots,

that grow for happy lovers.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Butterfly lady

2007-06-19T20:08:00.000Z

How does one become a butterfly?'' she asked pensively.

''You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.''

Trina Paulus

the right moment

2007-06-17T18:03:00.000Z

Love waits for one thing, the right moment.

Anna

Rejection of love

2007-06-16T18:07:00.000Z

Rejection is the greatest enemy of Love.

Sharmila Sanka

soil of acceptance

2007-06-15T14:55:00.000Z

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance,

not in the atmosphere of rejection”
John Powell quotes

childhood pastime

2007-06-12T17:41:00.000Z

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters

or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.”
Joseph Cornell quotes

eyes wide open

2007-06-11T17:53:00.000Z

“I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open,

and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed”

to suit me

2007-06-10T17:32:00.000Z

You can never get a cup of tea large enough
or a book long enough to suit me”
C.S. Lewis quotes

How do you like my new suit ?

2007-06-09T17:26:00.000Z

simple

2007-06-08T18:00:00.000Z

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see
and what I feel
in the best and simplest way.”
Ernest Hemingway

this little bird's paradise

2007-06-07T17:47:00.000Z

The bird of paradise alights only

upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

where flowers bloom

2007-06-06T17:23:00.000Z

Where flowers bloom so does hope.-
Lady Bird Johnson

my paradise garden

2007-06-05T20:20:00.000Z

I love my garden, it is my very own paradise
Today I picked the first raspberry of the season.
I just had to paint it before I ate the sweet little berry

only a few

2007-05-30T20:29:00.000Z

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.”

Music amongst the trees

2007-05-29T19:49:00.000Z

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden,
but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie Aumonier

happy birthday

2007-05-28T17:18:00.000Z

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever

family portrait

2007-05-26T17:48:00.000Z

meet the family -part 3

2007-05-25T14:05:00.000Z

Big brother

meet the family -part 2

2007-05-24T10:28:00.000Z

big sister

meet the family

2007-05-23T15:56:00.000Z

little sister

signs of love

2007-05-22T17:52:00.000Z

water of love

2007-05-21T18:30:00.000Z

Joy is but the sign

2007-05-20T12:47:00.000Z

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Charles Du Bos "

ladybird

2007-05-19T18:30:00.000Z

My crown is called content

2007-05-17T16:43:00.000Z

“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”

citrus3

2007-05-16T18:18:00.000Z

citrus2

2007-05-15T17:59:00.000Z

citrus

2007-05-14T17:23:00.000Z

“Citrus is a palette that looks good in spring.
That will never change.”

The poet's darling.

2007-05-13T09:53:00.000Z

The poet's darling. William Wordsworth, "To the Daisy"

ik hou van jou

2007-05-12T17:40:00.000Z

a soul opening out

2007-05-11T18:21:00.000Z

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.-
Gerald De Nerval

one freedom

2007-05-10T16:59:00.000Z

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

singing bird

2007-05-09T18:14:00.000Z

peace of mind

2007-05-08T13:12:00.000Z

If there is to be any peace
it will come through being,
not having.
Henry Miller

to fear love

2007-05-07T16:40:00.000Z

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

friendly neighbors

2007-05-06T15:31:00.000Z

We are surrounded by cows where I live,
and they are very friendly neighbors

Sitting quietly,
doing nothing,
spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself”

"I love and I love!"

2007-05-05T17:28:00.000Z

Do you ask what the birds say?

The sparrow, the dove,The linner and thrush say,

"I love and I love!"

In the winter they're silent

- the wind is so strong;

What is says, I don't know,

but it sings a loud song.

But green leaves,

and blossoms,

and sunny warm weather,

And singing, and loving

- all come back together.

But the lark is so brimful of gladness and love,

The green fields below him,

the blue sky above,

That he sings,

and he sings;

and for ever sings he

-"I love my Love, and my Love loves me!"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

pool of thought

2007-05-04T12:19:00.000Z

"How frail the human heart must be

- a mirrored pool of thought."

Sylvia Plath

Follow your heart

2007-05-03T10:57:00.000Z

Remember to

“Follow your heart,

but be quiet for a while first.

Ask questions, then feel the answer.

Learn to trust your heart.”

lovely as a tree

2007-05-02T10:42:00.000Z

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

We need hugs

2007-05-01T19:05:00.000Z

“We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”

two little wings

2007-04-30T14:03:00.000Z

If I had but two little wings
And were a little feathery bird,
To you I'd fly, my dear!

Lady Butterfly

2007-04-29T19:30:00.000Z

Look, a butterfly.
Did you make a wish?
You don't wish on butterflies.
You do so.
Did you make one?
Yes.
It doesn't count.

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