Saturday, March 21, 2009

Things I Saw On March 19, 2009

I am loving this new phone. I use it as a camera far more than I use it as a phone.
Anyway, I took it with me on my walk and into town last Thursday and here are some of the things I saw:



This is the old graveyard where the folks have been resting for a very long time. The dogwoods which surround the Peacefully Sleeping in Jesus are below:



I wouldn't mind having my ashes scattered here. Or better yet, my body, perhaps wound in an old soft sheet, buried without a box under these trees. Just me and the worms and one last way to do my little bit for the woods.

The next two are pictures of the pieces of the huge bouquet of flowers blooming right now. The first, the little yellow flowers, were in the woods.



The second, the red clover blooming on the shoulder of the road.



When Downtown Guy and Miss Maybelle were young'uns, we'd go out and pick the clover and I would make them little pillows stuffed with it.



The little old house with the wallpaper and the wisteria blooming in front of it. This house tugs at my heart very powerfully. It holds so many secrets in its walls.



This is the house where Lucy, prettiest dog in Lloyd lives. She sleeps on the front porch and when she sees me coming, she gets up and slowly makes her way to the front yard where I rub her up and croon to her about her beauty and sweetness while she snuffles and smiles. And oh yes, that's a fine oak tree, isn't it?



This is where I get my mail every day but Sunday. It's an old train station and Miss Joann is the postmistress and Miss Martha is her second-in-command. If they know you're waiting on a package, they will call you when it comes in.


This last one doesn't come from Lloyd, but from Tallahassee Nursery and I think it's a lovely picture and has some of my favorite things in it. The huge begonia which is the mother plant of my own, koi, and two types of ferns. And oh yes. Water.

So anyway, those are some images from a very, very good day of my life. It didn't involve a circus or tea with the queen or even a gulf or ocean or river. But it was, in its way, perfect. The cool spring air, the blooming flowers and budding trees, picking out plants for my yard and garden from nurseries where I wandered and admired and wished I had all the money in the world to buy every plant and pot I might have wanted, but quite content with what I got.
More than content.
Peacefully and quietly ecstatic with exactly what I got and exactly what I have.

12 comments:

  1. Nice pix. I can't believe phones take such good pix. Back in the day, could you ever imagine taking pix with a phone? What we are doing these days was all sci-fi... Makes me wonder what sci-fi stuff will be around when Harley is our age.

    Thanks for the post. Lloyd is a bloomin!
    pf

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  2. Wow! You found a way to get your pictures from phone to computer - I can't do that. I'm totally awed by your tech abilites! I'm selling my old Sprint phone to my future-ex for $30 - after he first insisted it was his and I pointed out that it was the free phone that came with our shared cell phone plan, for which I paid my half, I made him an offer he couldn't refuse - give me the $30, or I'll donate it to a women's shelter - and he gets the pictures that are still on it.

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  3. Ms. Fleur- I believe we live in the most beautiful place in the world right this second. Of course, I am prejudiced. Hey! We came over and stole Scott's old chicken waterer from you. Let me know if you want it back.

    MOB- There's a tiny, tiny, tiny (honestly- I've taken medications which were MUCH bigger) card that you can put into the camera and then it has a device you put the card in to USB it to the computer. I know. I'm amazing. HoneyLuna had to show me how.

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  4. I just can't believe you left the coop! It's a delux chicken condo!

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  5. I love wandering around old cemeteries. I took the kids to the zoo today since it was 50 degrees, and it was so nice to see all the animals moving around instead of sleeping the way the do when it's 90 degrees.
    Most of the pics on my blog come from my cell phone. It really is a handy little thing, isn't it?

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  6. Ms. Fleur- Do you still have that fish? We need a fish. If you do have it, please bring it over tomorrow when you bring the butternut squash plant and we will introduce it to the pond where it can eat mosquito larvae until it bursts.

    Rachel- It IS a handy little thing. Who knew?

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  7. The fish I believe is beginning to burst already. *He is older than Harley and has started the swimming sideways a little thing... but I know he would love to live the rest of his days in that beautiful pond and who knows, maybe he'll have a Maxi like recovery (When she ate the liver) I also have another fish. They simply must stay together.

    Also, the Millers have fish galore in their pond and are trying to get rid of some. I'll loan you my net if you want a few of those too!

    Why am I babbling about fish? Not enough adult company? gnite.

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  8. Lovely post! I have to say that whatever kind of camera phone you got is really good. The camera in my phone isn't worth crap unless what you are trying to take a picture of is less than 5 feet away.

    Also, what day did you go to Tallahassee Nurseries? I was there on Saturday. Perhaps we just missed each other. It was packed and as it was I ran into three people I know when I was there!

    Lastly, Lloyd is a very cute little town. I drove through there when I was wokring in Jefferson County last month and totally thought of you.

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  9. There is a similar graveyard where some of my people are buried in Texas. I swear, it is the most peaceful place I've ever been. It even seems cooler there in the summer time.

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  10. Lady Lemon- I was there on Thursday. And yes, everyone is at the nursery these fine spring days.
    Next time you're driving through Lloyd, drop by! Surely you can recognize my house from all my pictures. I am right "downtown."
    That would be a neat surprise.

    Ginger- Old graveyards do look similar and I think you're right about the way they stay a bit cooler in summer. At least the ones with shade.

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  11. I think I could recognize your house. I just might do that one of these days.

    :)

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  12. Lady Lemon- DO IT! If I'm home, the dogs and I will welcome you.

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