Lacy Leftover - Queen Anne's Lace

"Awareness is a choice, and sometimes it takes effort. But it’s never disappointing if we truly put some effort into it. The rewards for our effort already surround us all the time, but they’re awards that we miss constantly until we make the decision to open our eyes and our hearts to the beauty that’s always everywhere." 

 ~ Tom Walsh

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Queen Anne Against the Sky

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This Art created from my original photograph

"Queen Anne’s lace earned its common name from a legend that tells of Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) pricking her finger and a drop of blood landed on white lace she was sewing."

From The website Edible Wild Food:

Droplets On The Stem

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"Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there." 

 — Thich Nhat Hanh

Queen Anne's Lace

"In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, 

in winter enjoy." 

 ~ William Blake

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There is a Pleasure In the Pathless Woods

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

There is society, where none intrudes, 

By the deep sea, and music in its roar: 

I love not man the less, but Nature more, 

From these our interviews, in which I steal 

From all I may be, or have been before, 

To mingle with the Universe, and feel 

What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal." 

- Lord Byron

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Joy

I've pondered what this exactly means. To me it means trying to keep a positive attitude, seeing the positive in things rather than the negative and it just builds upon itself. The more positive/happy/joyful you are - the more positive/happy/joyful you become.

And it is contagious - so spread it around :)

Every Great Dream .....

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

~Harriet Tubman

Autumn Lace

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the

finality of year's end.

~ Hal Borland

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Droplet Duo

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

~ Melody Beattie


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Ladybug - Strolling Along The Lace

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,

This is the best season of your life.

- Wu-Men

Ladybug strolling along the aging Queen Anne's Lace

More of my Ladybug Images - HERE 

 

Delicate Drape

When you are describing,

A shape, or sound, or tint;

Don't state the matter plainly,

But put it in a hint;

And learn to look at all things,

With a sort of mental squint.

~Lewis Carroll

Jewelry of Nature

Innumerable as the stars of night,

Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun

Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

~ John Milton

Layers of Lace

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. 
 ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artsy versions of this image - 

HERE and HERE 

Wildflower Dreams

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

~ John Burroughs

One of my favorite quotes that I've used often on this blog. It is quite thrilling to me to hear the birds sing, to see flowers in a field or a butterfly in flight. What wonderful entertainment and beauty there is in just going for a walk. This was taken on one of my many summertime walks.  The white flower is Queen Anne's Lace and the blue in the background is Chicory

Queen Anne's Lace ~ Wildflower Elegance

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony. 
~ William Henry Channing

In All Directions

In All Directions
The Queen Grows
Beauty All Year Round 

My Field of Dreams

I dream of fields
overflowing
       overflowing
                 overflowing
with wildflowers
            and butterflies  

Queen Anne's Lace

We are made kind by being kind. 
~Eric Hoffer

If we are to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year...
Today should always be our most wonderful day.
~Thomas Dreier

Nature Is Golden

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own;

and from morning to night, as

from the cradle to the grave, 
it is but a succession of changes

so gentle and easy that we can

scarcely mark their progress.

~ Charles Dickens

Give Cheerfully - Accept Gratefully

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

~ Maya Angelou

Doesn't it looks like this Queen Anne's Lace is reaching out to help?

Wishing you a Very Blessed Day!