K = Kindness

These are oldie pics from a few years ago.  I miss the arboretum this time of year.  I'm sure the flowers are blooming like crazy, but they have no visitors to enjoy them.

I'm not doing A to Z, but I did not prep a Monday post, and  so I'll just throw in a K for Kindness.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than necessary?
J. M. Barrie

Monday Moments Part 2

 More from a Sunday stroll at the arboretum in August

 pure poetry in the Poetry Garden

 C'mon everybody, be free

Be a whirlwind today!

Monday Moments

 Sunday at the arboretum

 Hey Ray  - Let's take a walk

 even on a hot August morning, there's plenty of color

 special wind/kinetic art installations

Hope your week is easy breezy....

Not the Zoo

no lions 

 

in the park today 

mother pushing stroller

reassured blond toddler

her clipped british tone

kept tiger’s stalk

panther’s pounce

gorilla growl at bay

 

by Joanne Faries

 

(On Good Friday, at the Dallas Arboretum, I heard those words from a mother pushing a stroller. Obviously the little boy had asked the lion question thinking of past trips to a zoo. My friend and I chuckled - we reviewed our flowery stroll and indeed had been safe from wild animals. )

First Day of Spring

First day of spring and it's flash flood time. Let's harken back to Sunday at the arboretum - cloudy, breezy, and festive. Discovered this little nook, tucked off the DeGolyer home entrance. Quite cozy.

You're worried about how you're going to feel at the end of your life? What about right now? Live. Right this minute. That's where the joy's at - Abigail Thomas, writer.

learn flower names
bask in bountiful purple
snapdragon sway

My happiness is not the means to an end. It is the end. - Ayn Rand, author

To be quite oneself one must first waste a little time - Elizabeth Bowen, author

When do you have too many flower pics?

Can you ever really have too many flower pictures? Here's more shots from last weekend's trek to the Dallas arboretum. So much material to work with, it's flowers on steroids.

I liked these two hardy souls.

The Arboretum theme is Storybooks. Hmmm - Dr.Seuss "One Fish, Two Fish..." I've read this a thousand times to Abigail and she never tires of the rhyme, nor do I. It becomes almost pathological.

Gotta root for the cactus. Hardy and almost belligerent. Domineering in its environment.

Are you tired of haiku? I'm not, though I might wear out my fingers counting syllables.

should learn flower names
bask in bountiful purple
bell shaped loveliness

Joanne

P.S. I'm still jacking with the tile contractor and the pool's still green. The zen of the arboretum keeps me from being crazy. I need to return when the azaleas go berserk.

I wasn't going to write a thing.........

A friend, Linda T., and I succumbed to the beauty of the Dallas Arboretum. It was a tad gray outside, but it wasn't windy. Hence, tulips were not flying off the stems as we strolled the property. Glorious color, fabulous fields of 450,000 bulbs. These folks are insane in their plantings. It is poetry.

So, I wasn't going to write a thing......but here's a haiku I wrote a few weeks ago. Must share with the world.

fleeting harsh march winds
morose keen and winter pale
single yellow tulip