Happy Crafter: August 2014

Thursday, August 28, 2014

feels like Fall

Finished my sweater and am ready to wear it one of these fall days

Blossom sits by the patio door watching for a fly or maybe a bird

Rudbeckia Triloba one of my favorite fall flowers - it just continues to bloom until the first frost or maybe the first snow

Skies are really beautiful these days

Friday, August 1, 2014

Taking a walk at Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield

One of many places to stop "and smell the flowers"

Planting more wonderful flowers. Talked to this lady for a few minutes and she told us she is in charge of the flower planting - has worked for DBG for a number of years. A beautiful place to visit.

Goldfinches by Mary Oliver, Poet

In the fields
we let them have---
in the fields
we don't want yet---

where thistles rise
out of the mashlands of spring, and spring open---
each bud
a settlement of riches---

a coin of reddish fire---
the finches
wait for midsummer,
for the long days,

for the brass heat,
for the seeds to begin to form in the hardening thistles,
dazzling as the teeth of mice,
but black,

filling the face of every flower.
Then they drop from the sky.
A buttery gold,
they swing on the thistles, they gather

the silvery down, they carry it
in their finch beaks
to the edges of the fields,
to the trees,

as though their minds were on fire
with the flower of one perfect idea---
and there they build their nests
and lay their pale-blue eggs,

every year,
and every year
the hatchlings wake in the swaying branches,
in the silver baskets,

and love the world.
Is it necessary to say any more?
Have you heard them sing in the wind
above the final fields?
Have you every been so happy in your life?