May Summer Live On In Your Heart

taken:
day ninety three
09.21.2013

Well here it is, the last official day of summer. As always, it went by fast! 

On this, the last day of summer, my boys and I went for a visit to my parents house. No visit is complete without a walk through their yard and a peek at my mom's flowers. The last couple of years my mom has grown the most amazingly beautiful zinnias. They are GORGEOUS! They are tall, bright and perfection. I love them and am filled with envy since my zinnias never look that awesome. I'll keep trying though!

I'm sad to see summer go, but with vibrant memories of zinnias, cosmos, marigolds and sunflowers I can enter autumn feeling fulfilled with happiness and smiling because it happened. :)

For those of you who are summer lovers like me, may summer live on in your heart all year long, warming you on the dreary and cold days ahead!

Let It Fly Away

taken:
day thirty three
07.22.12

"Give your stress wings and let it fly away."

~Terri Guillemets 

A wonderful set of wings on a dragonfly in my mom's flower garden.

Week 15: Sacrifice

{ Project 52 Week 15: Sacrifice }

"Awake, thou wintry earth - 

Fling off thy sadness! 

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth  

Your ancient gladness!"

~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

Winter is a bit like sacrifice. We surrender to the bitter cold. We forgo lush green life. We give up long sunny days. Knowing that spring will be the reward. Spring will resurrect and renew. Spring will revive the world and the days around us. This pretty daffodil is a welcome sign of spring. It was blooming on Eater Sunday in my mom's garden.