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‘A seed neither fears light nor darkness, but uses both to grow.’ ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One of many
30 Sunday Oct 2022
Posted in autumn, wildflowers
Tag Archives: seedhead
Taking time to stand and stare
27 Saturday Aug 2022
Posted in nature
‘What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?’
From the poem ‘Leisure’ by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, Songs of Joy and Others, A. C. Fifield, 1911.
292/366 Seedheads, 3
18 Sunday Oct 2020
Posted in autumn, plants, wildflowers
264/366 Seedheads, 1
20 Sunday Sep 2020
Posted in autumn, plants, wildflowers
‘The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.’
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chapter 6: Nature, Essays, Second Series, 1844.
201/365 Rain
20 Saturday Jul 2019
Posted in 365DaysWildin2019, nature, weather
Yesterday it rained, it poured, it bucketed down and, after several weeks with scarcely a drop of rain, it was life-giving, cleansing, greening, quenching, reviving, freshening …
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