Too Cute

Closeup Heavenly Yellow

Process of Opening

                                                                                   

  Today: Already eaten (in part) by birds...:-(

Our Lone Sunflower (planted by accident in a vegetable garden...) :-)

A rare sunflower beauty. :-)

(My husband was able to discern this was 

a sunflower early on and left it to grow.)

"Why, hello."

:-)

Sweet petal of silk is my...

Front Yard Rose

Front yard rose
basking in the sun
Front yard rose
to see you is to come undone
Front yard rose
a bloom for passers-by
Front yard rose
sweet petal of silk is my
front yard rose.

Ode to a Wildflower Patch

Tiny purple patch
the smallest of wild flower
Tiny violet patch
quaking under the wind's power
Tiny blooming bunch
you rise to greet the day
Tiny cornflower stars of blue
you grace the first of May.

Luscious, precious petals,
four and a tiny face…
too small to gather in a bunch,
the mountain wood your vase.

Tiny violet bloom
alone up on the hill,
pressed in the pages of my heart
Remember you, I will.

(By K. Annie Powell)

(May) Wild Flowers in Boone, NC

Ode to a Wild Flower Patch

Tiny purple patch
the smallest of wild flower
Tiny violet patch
quaking under the wind's power
Tiny blooming bunch
you rise to greet the day
Tiny cornflower stars of blue
you grace the first of May.

Luscious, precious petal,
four and a tiny face…
too small to gather in a bunch,
the mountain wood your vase.

Tiny violet bloom
alone up on the hill,
pressed now firmly in my heart…
remember you-I will.

Hopeful...

Teary drops slide slow down the gentle sloping of each of her silken petals.

She is wet with the night's rain and the now dense morning dew in drops. 

She is again slick, sleek and ponderously heavy with the water drop drop weight 

as it clings and it slides itself.

Awash in the grayness of the strongly filtered morning light she waits.
Cautious has become her nature, 

as the stem on which she is perched bends and sometimes trembles 

under the heavy weight of all that she is, 

and all that she has become.

© KAnniePowell

Foggy Morn

It's a beautiful foggy morning here in the High Country. 

The fog is thick and unexpected. 

These are two shots of the fog lolly gagging about.  

Top Shot: A real beauty of a fat and a wide all white 

azalea bush (rare) we spied at an 'out

in the country' yard sale. There were loads of huge black
bumble bees floating in and out of the blossoms,
but do you know that they don't like being photographed?

What a great way to start off this week!

Enjoy!

Come and walk these ol' hills (with me!)

lg

Fabulous Forsythia, Barn With a Quilt and a Surprise...

On a brief photo journey today, I 'spied'
a cute barn with a quilt and as I drove
up the horse in the pic
(second from the bottom)
snuck his head out and whinnied as if to say
"Are you the one with my food?"
Top Several:
The forsythia are in full bloom right now and fabulous to behold!

Spring in the Brambles

Blowing Rock

Proud

Hidden

Brambles

A Spring Morning Mountain View

This morning, I ventured to the same

location where I photographed wild daffodils

on a mountainside (Blowing Rock.) Last year,

I told a story of how I stumbled down the slope

-here- to procure the photo and then scared

a very large rabbit out of a bramble patch hole.

Ha! I (just) love things like that!

:)

My footing was sure this time.

However, as I carefully took each step down the slope,

I did (again) manage to scare away some wild creature

(probably a deer) who was snorting a wee bit down

the slope in protest to my appearance!

The area was once again, lovely, and this time

I was happy to 'spy' an entire grotto of wild daffodils

in the thicket and down the mountainside!

I thought, what a view God must have of all the

wonderful things...

the 'hidden from (our) sight most luscious and

beautiful things' from His all-seeing aerial view!!

I needed a small plane today to see all the wild

(mountain) daffodils hidden away!

But~~I did manage to photograph some...

and here they are. And If you look very carefully,

you can see that the daffodils are hidden away

in the thicket and down the entire mountainside!

A most wonderful and a lovely thing :)

Yours,

lg

:) :)

Passion Flower

Previous
flowers
that
I have
met in
my life.
:)