Monday
Apr252011
Flowers for Easter: 5. Salmonberry
Monday, April 25, 2011 Pink, brown, green & glorious evening light -- discovered in a clearing while I was carrying garden trimmings & my dear departed Japanese maple tree stump to the ravine:
Rubus spectabilis (Salmonberry)
XXXVI
Frequently the woods are pink,
Frequently are brown;
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
Oft a head is crested
I was wont to see --
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be.
And the earth, they tell me,
On its axis turned, --
Wonderful rotation
By but twelve performed!
Emily Dickinson (1830-86). Complete Poems.
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A very pretty series of Easter photos, but made even lovelier by the addition of poetry.
Thank you, Arwen. What a sweet comment!
I've only recently discovered Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems. I'm enjoying them one by one, though I confess I've skipped ahead to Part 2 (Nature).