Hello August

sipping ice tea in my garden

 and watching a pair of sweet cabbage white butterflies

as they flutter about & explore my wild secret garden …

planted to be a haven for butterflies* bees * birds * squirrels* chipmunks …

{and perhaps, even a few faeries}

this time of year everything has filled in and spilled over to the walking path

but I love it like that ...

the cosmos are taller this year than ever before {gorgeousness}

and soon I will brush my hand over them and gather up seeds

& toss them all about the garden again to land where they wish...

the lambs ears always lure me to run my hand against their gentle softness

coleus are filling window boxes and clay pots

portulaca have been thriving in the heat

~hello August~

you've been a hot one so far

"she had a wild, wandering soul

but when she loved,

she loved with chaos

and that made all the difference"

~Ariana Dancu~ 

watching the bees on our daily walk through the woods

 enjoying the shade and

breeze of trees

and cooling off at the waters edge

peace and  serenity found

"We need the tonic of wildness...

at the same time

 that we are earnest to explore

 and learn all things,

we require that all things be mysterious

and unexplorable,

that land and sea

be indefinitely wild,

unsurveyed and unfathorned by us

because unfathornable.

We can never have enough of nature"

~Henry David Thoreau~

hello friends

"When you do things from your soul,

you feel a river moving in you,

a joy"

~Rumi~