taken today
november blossoms
soul shines, white and pink manna
early christmas lights
plugged into sun, offering
priceless, remembering thanks
taken today
taken 111923
Grace is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. Grace offered a possible topic of food, which got me thinking about how flowers are manna for the soul, especially in November.
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What a great reminder of all those indoor blooms we can have. Soon it is time to get poinsettas too.
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Last week in Grand Rapids, I saw poinsettias in colors I didn’t know existed.
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This is soo beautiful, Lisa! Wow 😍😍
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:) Thanks, Sanaa
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Beautiful beautiful pictures 🌹
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Thank you :)
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Welcome 🙏 freinds
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What a blessing for these blooms. And xmas lights bring cheers! Love your photos too.
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Thank you, Grace :)
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Festive flowers cheer up the indoors in these dark days. Lovely.
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Thanks, Freya :)
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Beautiful flowers and plants, and the words accompany them like an ethereal shawl, thank you for sharing!
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Mirjana, thank you and I like what you see in the poem <3
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Wonderful Lisa and I love the plants. Great post. Thank you.
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Glad you like it, and thanks for bringing that Loggins & Messina song back to me. They still got it. I like to see the seasoned musicians with the younger backup musicians as they can learn so much from the older ones.
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Sweet and savory.
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:) thanks!
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Beautiful
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Thanks, Randy!
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Beautiful natural lights, lovely.
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:) Thank you
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Beautiful! Blooms and words :)
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Thank you, Dale.
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😊
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A beautiful take Li. Flowers and nature feed our esthetic senses
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Sadje, thanks much.
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Most welcome my friend
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I have always loved cacti. Thanks for sharing them. Love November blossoms.❤️
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Thanks, Melissa! Both of those cacti are survivors from a big plant that got fungus gnats, which are usually fatal to them and many other plants. I’m kind of surprised one bloomed pink and one bloomed white.
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Love the plants!
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Max, thank you. They sure are cheering me up.
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That is great!
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I inherited my Christmas/Easter cactuses from my mother – there are two plants, one of each in a single pot and they must be pot-bound but I dare not disturb them and they continue to bloom several times a year between them…
Love the poem Lisa!
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Andrew, thank you. You are blessed to have plants from your mother. Thanks for the tips. See my comment to Melissa to see the history of these 2. Unfortunately here the fungas gnat larvae LOVE eat the roots of Christmas cacti. I do my best to keep even the small ones alive.
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I like the idea of November manna Lisa – I too have a thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata)
– pale pink which tends to bloom long before the eponymous celebration but has a second go just before Christmas as if trying to be Schlumbergera bridgesii!
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Very cool. It’s like they know how to impress us. Michael Pollan (Botany of Desire) would agree :)
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Beautiful Jane. Indeed full of light. (K)
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Thanks, K. They are sitting in sunlight right now :)
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Jade…was it my typing or autocorrect?
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:)
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Beautiful words and plants, Lisa! You have a green thumb!
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Thank you, Merril and glad you enjoyed them :)
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You’re very welcome, Lisa!
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OH, lights plugged into the sun … how wonderfully creative. Images are icing on the poetry cake.
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Thank you, Dear Helen.
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Love your “early christmas lights” “plugged into the sun” for dark November days and nights! How grateful we are for them! Beautifully rendered, Lisa.
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Thank you, Dora. Grateful is the perfect word.
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🩷🙂
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So simple and so perfect. (The rhythm of this verse is spot on, as well)
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Alexandra, thanks and happy you liked the verse.
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“plugged into the sun”….I like that!
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It’s what it feel like to see them light up.
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