a flower, a river, a rainbow
Mar. 16th, 2024 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestIt has been a busy few days, spending quite a bit of time thinking on other useful things that I am supposed to be doing. And also, hosting turlough and chalcopyrite and attending the East Anglia Yarn Festival with them and some local friends. I acquired a pleasing quantity of yarn, although I have discovered to my sorrow that I do not like knitting with Tencel, even if it is a lovely bluebell colour.
Anyway. Today's prompt shall be: A flower, a tree, or some other plant, that brings you joy
Because it is Magnolia Time! What's more, today there was a beautiful blue sky to provide the perfect backdrop.
There are a lot of magnolias hereabouts, and some of them are mighty trees. There was one near the cathedral that's the height of a three-storey house. They are so clustered with flowers at the moment that they look like pale pink cumulus clouds, and they are amazingly beautiful and heart-lifting. Of course, this all happens in about a fortnight, after which the ground is littered with soggy pink-brown petals, but while they are in bloom I don't think there is anything more glorious.
*As* glorious, yes. The mighty beech tree just over the fence from our back garden is as glorious in autumn as the magnolia is in spring, when it is a fiery, coppery orange. And shedding half its leaves into our garden, which is less glorious.
There are, of course, lots and lots of plants that bring me joy. The pumpkins, newly sprouting in little pots on the windowsill. Raspberries in fruit. Courgettes and beans and sweetcorn unmolested by squirrels and, really, anything that grows and provides food when I have asked it to. And the little violas that flowered for an incredible amount of time last year, the handsome leaves of heucheras, the spring blossoms and the poppies in summer, and the various flowers I have planted and cannot currently remember, but which I hope will return soon. So lovely.
turlough and chalcopyrite and attending the East Anglia Yarn Festival with them and some local friends. I acquired a pleasing quantity of yarn, although I have discovered to my sorrow that I do not like knitting with Tencel, even if it is a lovely bluebell colour.Anyway. Today's prompt shall be: A flower, a tree, or some other plant, that brings you joy
Because it is Magnolia Time! What's more, today there was a beautiful blue sky to provide the perfect backdrop.
There are a lot of magnolias hereabouts, and some of them are mighty trees. There was one near the cathedral that's the height of a three-storey house. They are so clustered with flowers at the moment that they look like pale pink cumulus clouds, and they are amazingly beautiful and heart-lifting. Of course, this all happens in about a fortnight, after which the ground is littered with soggy pink-brown petals, but while they are in bloom I don't think there is anything more glorious.
*As* glorious, yes. The mighty beech tree just over the fence from our back garden is as glorious in autumn as the magnolia is in spring, when it is a fiery, coppery orange. And shedding half its leaves into our garden, which is less glorious.
There are, of course, lots and lots of plants that bring me joy. The pumpkins, newly sprouting in little pots on the windowsill. Raspberries in fruit. Courgettes and beans and sweetcorn unmolested by squirrels and, really, anything that grows and provides food when I have asked it to. And the little violas that flowered for an incredible amount of time last year, the handsome leaves of heucheras, the spring blossoms and the poppies in summer, and the various flowers I have planted and cannot currently remember, but which I hope will return soon. So lovely.
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Date: 2024-03-17 09:11 pm (UTC)Magnolias are so beautiful and ancient.
Despite my icon I vote roses, because they are pretty, scented, and edible. When child me found out roses are edible I found that magical and I still do.
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Date: 2024-03-17 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-18 12:49 pm (UTC)I love wild violas. They always remind me of my favourite great aunt - they grew freely in her lawn.
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Date: 2024-03-18 03:24 pm (UTC)It's nice to have a flower memory connected to a person. Japanese anemones and Goldenrod remind me of my grandma. She used to put Goldenrod into her flower arrangements for the chapel.
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Date: 2024-03-20 09:09 am (UTC)Thanks for bringing back that memory :)
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Date: 2024-03-18 08:05 pm (UTC)It's very vexing we managed to miss the magnolias! Our winters are a bit too harsh for most of them so you don't see them very often. I remember visiting my half-sister in London one year just when they were in bloom and it was a fantastic sight.
I don't think I could decide on just one flower/plant/tree either. There are so many glorious ones and they're all different and worthy of love in their on right.