tiny orchids
tiny orchids
burst through tangled straw
take center stage
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 30 March 2015
Photo credit: DAFraser, March 2015
Orchid Meadow in the Longwood Gardens Conservatory
Telling the Truth
connecting the dots of my life
Tag: Photos
March 31, 2015
March 28, 2015
Meet Mrs. Hanks
It’s 1952. Mrs. Worth Hanks has just answered the door bell. Her gray hair is piled on her head, with wispy bits escaping here and there. She’s wearing eyeglasses, and has bright red lipstick on her lips, slightly smeared. Her clothes are a little wrinkled and she looks Read the rest of this entry »
March 26, 2015
roof-top garden
roof-top garden
smiles as I pass by
melts my heart
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I’m a sucker for bird houses
with heart.
Old, weathered, tended and
loved into reality.
One of a kind
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 26 March 2015
Photo credit: DAFraser, August 2014
Longwood Meadow Garden
March 26, 2015
I want to be a meadow garden
Meadow Garden at Longwood
It wasn’t an evening sky that started it. It was waking up in the morning, thinking about a wonderful conversation we had recently with a friend from our seminary days.
I teared up a bit, thinking about how much had changed since the 1970s, Read the rest of this entry »
March 25, 2015
What the doctor ordered!
Conservatory at Longwood Gardens
Exactly what the doctor ordered! Fragrance, green-green-green, brilliant flowering shrubs and flowers, the sound of water dripping, running along the stream and falling over small falls. Orchid Extravaganza. Organ music in the ballroom. Lunch in the café. And more photos–see below. Read the rest of this entry »
March 23, 2015
spring sun warms steel chair
spring sun warms steel chair
soaks chilly walkers’ jackets
highlights veiled background
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 23 March 2015
Photo credit: DAFraser, March 2012
Antalya, Turkey, on the Mediterranean Sea Coast
March 17, 2015
God Bless You All – Howard Finster
Click on painting
to see the following text in
Howard Finster’s own hand.
The painting is titled “God Bless You All.”
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Visions of Other Worlds
My troubles
came by
people
not animels Read the rest of this entry »
March 16, 2015
distant images
distant images
beckon beyond vibrant hues
of giant blossoms
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Click on corridor photo to see distant image. Read the rest of this entry »
March 15, 2015
The Angels and the Tiger
Here’s another Amy poem for children everywhere. Especially, but not only young children in unsafe situations. Amy Carmichael spent most of her life in South India living with and for young Indian children.
Most were girls; some were boys. Many were temple children, Read the rest of this entry »
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