This golden ray of sunshiny beauty adorned my table at a restaurant recently. A beautiful part of the decor that enhanced the dining experience. Hope it brings some sunshine to your day today especially if you’re in colder climes. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. …
Continue reading Flower of the Day Challenge #22: Golden Ray
Leafy carpet Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
She’s kaleidoscopeAutumn beckons through the blinds:“Come see my beauty” Behold: trees of shimmering yellow… …vivacious red, …golden brown! Behold a standout beauty! Behold: leaves carpeting ride path … … and cushioning walk path, a lady in red goes by green bench. Behold, geese in river hemmed in by autumn-colored trees! I hope you enjoyed this …
I sent this photo to my mom and she was elated by what she saw. I didn’t see it till she pointed it out. What do you see when you look at this rose? Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? …
Continue reading Flower of the Day Challenge #21: What Do You See?
Flowers often say what words cannot. Sharing this array of beauties to brighten your day. Flowers say it best! Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
My favorite park—it has a river running through it, and bridges, and tons of trees and a walk/run path winding along the river. Now that autumn is here it’s an array of colors. I spend many hours absorbing its beauty and being healed by its tranquility. Today the reflection from its river is captured for …
Each morning when I look out my window, this tree greets me “hello”. Her colorful transition into barrenness is as if she’s saying: The trees are about to show [you] how lovely it is to let the dead things go.Author Unknown Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #19: Tree in Transtion
The roses are holding their own, defying the cold and still pushing out blooms, warming my heart and providing offerings to share with you Behold the delicate intricacies of a rose’s anatomy Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You …
Continue reading Flower of the Day Challenge #19: Rose Anatomy
The joys of the season are all cleverly brought together in this beautiful decor design. No trick and nothing spooky here, just the beauty of nature exemplified. Hello Autumn! Hey there Harvest! What’s up Orange?! Contributing to Fandango’s One Word Challenge, trick; and the Word of the Day Challenge, spooky. Thank you for journeying along. …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #18: Seasonal Decor
For your viewing pleasure—of blooms and buds! Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
For your viewing pleasure—one rose bush, many rose blooms … Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
I went apple picking for the first time! It rained but that didn’t stop me from climbing trees to fill my bag with the choicest of apples. Topped it off with freshly-made apple cider and delish apple donuts. Yummy 😋 There were pumpkins of all sizes and shapes, some painted with adoring smiley faces. There …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #19: Pumpkins, Gourds & Harvest
Presenting MsFoxglove, fashionably adorned in a lavender-polka-dotted-glove-like ensemble taking the 1st place award for the “most delicate” in the garden. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, …
Continue reading Flower of the Day Challenge #16: Fashionable Foxglove
Currently unfolding in my potted garden is this gorgeous mum. And nothing betokens the arrival of autumn like mums in their rustic glory: Here’s to mums gloriously draped in raindrops. I hope this brings some joy to your day. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt, Sheryl for hosting Your Daily …
Continue reading Flower of the Day Challenge #15: Mums & Raindrops
Here’s to mum in a fully-grown afro—she’s pretty by nature. I hope this brings some joy to your day. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
If it creeps or crawls, you can be guaranteed there’ll be one reaction from me—a mad dash in the opposite direction! I’m sitting on the porch and look up to see this grasshopper lazing on the rail. But… … I’m not having that feeling-to-run feeling. Umm — it seems being in the garden all summer …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #18: The Art in Nature
Pictorial ode to the ART God created in eARTh … 2021 ©createdbyDEEsign All rights reserved Thank you for journeying along! First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
Reflecting on how wonderful it was to have a garden (my first). Thank you garden, you blessed me immensely this spring to summer and heading into autumn you’re still giving vibrant offerings. And also for Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt (though there is more than one flower today). Thank you for journeying along. First …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #17: Remnants of the Garden
My garden is still giving me vibrant vibes. Here’s to pretty red roses—pretty by nature. I hope they bring some joy to your day. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the …
Continue reading Flower of the Day Challenge #13: Roses Are Red
Reminiscing on the day these were delivered. Love expressed with a kaleidoscopic array of roses. And also for Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
So this was from early in the season but I’m already nostalgic for spring/summer. Here’s to pretty pink Azalea—pretty by nature. I hope she brings some joy to your day. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start …
Sharing this foxglove beauty from my garden to bring a little joy to your day today. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
Walking through a car park and this beauty stopped me in my track and out came my trusty iPhone to capture her elegance. Isn’t she lovely?! I’m calling her the “coral flower” cause I don’t know her name. Do you!? Please help me name her. I hope this beauty brings a bit of joy to …
Continue reading Flower of the Day Challenge #10: The “Coral” Flower
Earlier this summer I was strolling through a meadow looking for place to picnic and thought this spot was perfectly dreamy. No sooner had I settled in before bees started arriving. We cohabitated safely—me reading and they doing what bees do when they find a good flower. With my trusty iPhone, captured this bee doing …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #15: Wild Flower & The Bee
Raindrops on rose petals I hope these will bring a little joy 🤩 to your day today Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
I LOVE orchids! They are an exquisite combination of class and elegance, adding beauty to any space. It took me awhile to get the hang of keeping orchids alive and getting them to rebloom. Now that I have, I find so much joy in ‘raising’ my orchid babies. I hope these bring a little joy …
I’m always torn between summer and fall — summer never seems long enough, but then I long to bask in the the kaleidoscopic-beauty of fall. Saying “see ya later” to summer 2021 … cheers 🥂 Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the …
It was worth the almost 2-hours drive to the farm to share with you this sunflower beauty to bring a little joy to your day today. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more …
Sharing this hydrangea beauty to bring a little joy to your day today. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Borrowing this caption from Eunice: “pretty by nature”. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative …
FlowerPurple uniqueStandout amidst yellowBeautifully arranged summerBouquet After-word: written using the cinquain poetry form of five lines with a specific syllable count of 2-4-6-8-2, usually iambic. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
Came upon these beauties while trekking in Sedona, Arizona Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
TickseedCheerful yellowAttracts a bee withinFavored snack bar in the gardenTo eat After-word: This is my first attempt at a cinquain which is a poem of five lines with a specific syllable count of 2-4-6-8-2, usually iambic. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #12: The Tickseed & Her Bee [a Cinquain]
I deadheaded yesterday and this beauty is the last of the reblooms. But, there are new buds so I’m super excited for the 4th set of reblooms this season! Sharing to bring a little joy to your day today. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt. Thank you for journeying along. …
Strolling through a public garden on a promenade and came across this beautiful pink hibiscus — it’s deserving to be today’s Flower of the Day, hosted by Cee. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
There she was—perched precariously, as squirrels often do. She was maneuvering her way across a black unevenly-spiked fence in a quaint little garden off the Brooklyn promenade. She’s poised. Graceful in her moves. Tail elongated she floats about with seamless acrobatics atop this fence. I stayed a non-threatening distance away to capture as much of …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #11: The Squirrel Model
Today’s entry in Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge: Tickseed and Fox Glove from my garden! Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
Xingfu Mama hosts the Pull up a seat photo challenge: my submission is influenced by those moments when I need to ‘take a load off’ or chillax awhile—I choose this antique wrought iron bench in a quiet nook of the garden. Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start …
Today’s entry in Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge: a single red rose from my garden Thank you for journeying along. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
I’d say I’m the “accidental gardner”. I picked up gardening this summer when the lansdcaping company I hired was a no-show. We had laid out the plan but when spring ended and May rolled around and they were nowhere in sight I said to myself, “Self, you can do this”. I had no tools and …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #10: Of Deadhead & Re-bloom
On a nature trail this flower stopped me dead in my jog track and I turned back to freeze it in a photo-memory. Later when I zoomed in on the photo realized I inadvertently captured a bit of nature in motion—this ant and his worm dinner served up on a tessellate-like multi-petal platter! Bon appétit …
Today’s reflection is another garden vibe, this time at night. I’ve now transplanted the last of the hydrangeas and roses from pots to the garden. …from pot, …to garden. You may also like Happy Garden Vibes. 2021. ©createdbyDEEsign.com. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #9: Night Time Garden Vibes
Joining Sandee for Comedy Plus Wordless Wednesday with this photo — how would you caption it? Thank you for reading. First time to the site? Welcome! You may start here👈 and for more follow the blog here👈In creative solidarity, Dee
Today’s photo is a pause for reflection on the calm after the storm on a beach in Coney Island, NY. Tropical Storm Elsa dumped her flooding rains, howled her gusty winds, stirred up her tornadoes, dumped her icy hails, flashed her lightnings, and barreled her thundering sounds across the sky from the Caribbean isles to …
One of the positive things about movements being restricted by this pandemic is that it freed up time and so I picked up new hobbies. In addition to blogging (you may like “Why I Created This Blog”), I also started gardening over the past 2-3 months and it’s been pure JOY! So before I lose …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #7: Happy Garden Vibes
Today’s reflection is based on pix taken through this window. For most of my flight I was transfixed—watching clouds go by and snapping pix along the way. Flying in the boundless sky, above and through clouds. If I was a painter, I’d reflect the emotions evoked on canvas. But, since I’m a poet I’ll express …
Every lady needs a fighter, a warrior, a defender of her honor Not a page or a squire A man of special military rank, ceremonially inducted A mounted man-at-arms in devoted service of his lady Bounded, is he, to chivalrous acts An attendant and a champion true A knight in armor Shimmering Ornate Decorated Colors …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #5: The Lady & Her Fighter
Photo provided by createdbyDEEsign Raindrops cascading in ferocious quick succession Drop after pounding drop beating mercilessly against your soft petals Bobbing up and down you bounce back resiliently Absorbing liquid nutrients all the while knowing they’ll make your petals shine brighter Protecting a tiny ant snuggled up cozily in the depth of your embrace You’re …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #4: Raindrops on Rhododendrons©
Last year, around this time, NY was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. I ventured out the house for only the essentials and sadly, but smartly, that didn’t include gardening supplies or plants. So, the garden languished all year—doing its best to be splendiferous with the remnants of what survived from the year before and …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #3: Happy Garden Vibes
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Thanks to spring, the birds are back in their chirping splendor. There’s a special little cutie that’s been dropping by regularly. I love him (I assume he’s a “he”😀) because of his red feathers. In enticing him to hang out with me, I thought I’d get him this birdy bird feeder. Can’t wait for him …
It rained all last night and most of today. At the first sign the rain was abating, me and my trusty iPhone headed down the stairs and across the street to the walk path and river to capture nature in her glow. First I encountered the hydrangeas on the steps as I’m heading out, they’ve …
Continue reading Sunday Photo Reflection #1: Spring Blooms & River Flow
Spring Blooms captured on my morning walk while embracing the gift of Sabbath—rest, reflection, restoration. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading! Follow the blog here👈 for more.In creative solidarity, Dee
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