40 Replies to “Golden Thread and Meadow Ribbon”

    1. wildsherkin – Sherkin Island, Co Cork, Ireland – I like to make things, and I don't always have time and space to do that. Sherkin Island is a tiny island off the south west coast of Cork. It's one of the Carbery One Hundred Isles in Roaring Water Bay, just a ten minute ferry ride from Baltimore in West Cork yet a million miles away from my day job.
      wildsherkin says:

      Beautiful! It’s almost like a delicate textile artwork.

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  3. poitoucharentesinphotos – Charroux in the Department of Vienne, France and in Clearwell Gloucestershire. – Retired ecologist. Wife, children and grandchildren, not too many of each! Hobbies include photography, travel, eating and drinking, wildlife and history. I suppose I should now add writing as my book on Woodland Wild Flowers was published in May 2021 and I am now working on two more. Coastal Wildflowers which is more or less complete and one about Walls and flowers, combining famous or interesting walls with flowers that colonise them.
    poitoucharentesinphotos says:

    Well spotted this makes a great photo

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  4. @ablanccanvas – Canada – Been on this planet for awhile and right now I am on a creative exploration. There are no rules. I am a blanc canvas. I am all about living [thinking] creatively.
    Christine says:

    Beautiful!

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  9. Hello Seedbud, I enjoy your posts. Are the photos all taken where you live? And where is that? Peace, Pat

    On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM, leaf and twig wrote:

    > ** > seedbud posted: ” A sparkling of frost gloriously gift wraps the > meadow.”

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    1. Hi Pat. Yes all the photos are taken where I live which is in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire USA. Just across the Connecticut river from Vermont. It’s an exceptionally lovely place and I feel very fortunate to be here. Thanks for stopping by.

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  11. Roshaunda D. Cade, Ph.D. – St. Louis, MO, USA – I am an educator, writer, coach, and self-proclaimed cultural custodian for black women. I am a black woman; I value what we offer to society; and I work to promote our collective vision, joy, and peace. Through LELA House, I seek to maintain, protect, and advance the culture of black women, focusing on our LELA (Life, Education, Literature, and Art). I support women whose writing includes black women and our concerns (especially, but not solely, from the long US 19th Century). I also offer executive life coaching and self-care services. Additionally, I enjoy learning, writing biblical plays and fiction, dancing in the praise dance ministry at church, playing my clarinet in a community band, and pushing my creative boundaries.
    Roshaunda says:

    Wow. This is so beautiful, like all of your work. Do you plan to publish your posts as a book?

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  15. ljlenehan – Ireland – Poet, writer, mother of two, wife of sudden adult death survivor, emergency call centre manager... I have lived in Ireland for twelve years but am originally from Tucson Arizona... I have found hope where there was none, light where there was dark; love when all was lost... This blog chronicles the stories of my soul...
    ljlenehan says:

    Lovely start of winter poem… Simple and pretty…

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  17. inkpaintwords – A feminist writer and artist with a penchant for all things French, living in Washington DC. My love of language led me, indirectly, to my pleasure in gardening, drawing and watercolor. It began with a book, a collection of New Yorker garden columns by Katherine White, wife of its founding editor E.B.White. Her enthusiastic appraisal of the literary merit of various garden catalogs led me to collect and keep her favorites as well as to hoard with them some more recently-emerged seed, bulb and seed catalogs. The beautiful catalogs inspired me to little by little turn our entire front lawn (our home had a wooded ravine close behind) into a garden. That grew into a lovely site with two simple arches, a gliding bench on a little sitting patio and modest slate paths winding through beds of shade lovers and whatever plants supposedly in need of full sun that I could manage to coax into colorful healthy bloom. A curiosity about color and color theory emerged as I became keenly interested in impressionist painters; that interest merged in some way with my urge to garden. I acquired more than one book about Monet’s garden and gardens of other impressionist painters, both French and American. One day I picked up a magazine for painters, and found inside an article about a painter I’d known. Among examples of her splendid watercolor paintings was her watercolor of her garden at that time. Suddenly I could think of nothing more exciting than painting my garden. I enrolled in her watercolor class in The Art League in Alexandria, VA. The influence that the collection of Katherine White’s columns about the literary merits of certain garden catalogs has had on my life has come full now. Ink, Paint & Words combines what has become an obsession with drawing and watercolor with my passion for language. Yes, I still garden. A table full of blooming potted plants sits on my apartment patio, backed by an ivy covered fence with park trees behind. My patio, and my larger environment of Washington DC, together provides wonderful vistas for drawing and painting. For a number of years annual trips to France gave me and my companions extravagantly colorful panoramas and charming tableaux for brush and pen. And yes, now I’ve painted in Monet’s gardens several times. But that, as they say, is another story.
    inkpaintwords says:

    Fun!

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  20. heavenhappens – Welcome to my life. You can share my grown up world here at http://heavenhappens.me where I blog my faith, my thoughts, my life, my travels, my photographs and my poetry. Growing up just after the war was a grim experience. So, now that I have 7 grandchildren, I am reclaiming my childhood by seeing the world anew through their eyes. Every minute I spend with them is magical. So this blog is for them ~ Ben, Rosie, Tiffany, Stanley, Thea, Mateo, and the youngest, Olivia! I hope, when they are all grown up, they will enjoy reading it and finding out about their grandma’s life, and know how very happy they made her. I hope you enjoy reading my posts, leave a comment or a link and I will get back to you. I’m sorry to say that my darling husband died of Covid on Good Friday 2020. Since then the wind has gone out of my sails and I’ve hardly written a thing. I will try to pick up my life and start writing again one day. But for now please enjoy exploring my life🕊️
    heavenhappens says:

    Wonderful photo reminds me of long hair tangled and greying, mother earth’s maybe. Loved you words too. Thanks for sharing your beautiful part of the world.

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  21. sharonstjoan – Poet, writer, and advocate for wildlife, wild lands, and the earth. President, Forest Voices of India - a U.S.-based group which aids charities in India that further education, culture, the well-being of women, children, and animals, and the restoration of sacred groves. websites: https://wordpress.com/view/forestvoicesofindia.com https://wordpress.com/view/echoesinthemist.com https://wordpress.com/view/wildvoices.world book: Glimpses of Kanchi https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Kanchi-Sharon-St-Joan/dp/1982901179/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Glimpses+of+Kanchi&qid=1581769003&sr=8-1
    sharonstjoan says:

    Reblogged this on Voices and Visions.

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  25. Gretchen Del Rio – Crestline, California, USA – I first discovered the magic of water based colors when many years ago I began to paint with procion dyes on silk. I loved the unexpected quality of the process. It was so exciting to never be sure what the colors and water would combine to produce. It seemed as though the medium had its own passion. Painting with watercolors and paper is much the same. I love the color combinations and separations that occur spontaneously as the color floats on the water. You can never totally predict what effect will result. If you try to control the medium too much, your painting will be very tight losing its aliveness. The artist must be bold and decisive or the work will not be clear and fresh. It is really like a dance. It becomes a controlled folly in knowing when to let go and when to take charge of the direction that the painting is taking. The images that I paint reflect my emotions and are expression of my life experience. They are not extensively planned, but rather evolve as the painting progresses. I am always surprised by the end result since it comes into being because of what the medium and emotion has suggested. The paintings are from my heart and I always fall in love with the subject. I believe that we are all connected and, if an image touches you, it is because we all have the same heart even though our paths may be different. Most of all, painting what I paint makes me happy. The paintings are my own path unfolding. They are an opening door for me and contain my own passion for life.
    Gretchen Del Rio says:

    reminds me of some variation of spun sugar. sweet glass

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  29. Louis – Man of leisure! Particular interests: Photography, gardening, reading - especially historical fiction - and the arts in general. I enjoy quiet rather than noise; shade rather than sun. We (my wife and I, the children having long since pursued their various paths) live on the edge of a small village, next to a sheep farm. Our favourite holiday retreat is the Isles of Scilly.
    Louis says:

    Delightful texture and simple palette. I like it – a lot!

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  31. I always enjoy stopping by – thank you!

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  36. oawritingspoemspaintings – A lover of poetry, abstract and realistic painting, music, good writing, languages, Italy, photography, holistic therapies, natural lifestyle and fully living the moment.
    oawritingspoemspaintings says:

    Amazing blog, it’s a true jewel… the photos are one more exquisite than the other, beautiful work!

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