Today’s Painting

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acrylic painting, blossom, woodland

in a purple mood!

Paintings by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Badbury Blossom

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Badbury Clump, blackthorn, blossom, Spring walks Cotswolds

This gallery contains 3 photos.

Images by Candia Dixon- Stuart

Blackthorn Beauty

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American poets, Badbury, blackthorn, blossom, Joyce Kilmer, Nature poems, Spring

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

 

I think that I shall never see

a poem lovely as a tree…

 

a tree that looks at God all day,

and lifts her leafy arms to pray…

 

Upon whose bosom snow has lain

who intimately lives with rain…

 

Poems are made by fools like me

but only God can make a tree.

 

 

Joyce Kilmer (1886-1914)

 

 

 

 

Today in the Garden

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blossom, Hellebore, Spring flowers, white violets

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

On Blossom

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blossom, choka, Kyogoku Chunagon, Nara

Single, not double

is the best kind of blossom.

In Nara, double

blossom is everywhere.

Now it’s gone global.

It’s quite overblown; blowsy.

Some varieties

harbour insects; flower late.

Blossoms withering on twigs

are so unsightly.

Kyogoku Chunagon

planted single types

as they scatter their petals,

evoking abundant joy.