Friday, May 20, 2011

VOLUNTEER

I MENTIONED YESTERDAY that I no longer can take photographs while driving, now that I'm the driver. There are exceptions once in a great while.

The red light was long enough the other day that I could feverishly whip my little camera out of my purse and snap this before the light turned green.


It made me very happy to capture a volunteer snapdragon growing blithely in the median strip near a busy intersection. God in action.

9 comments:

  1. Exactly. The flowers I see growing from pavement always move me.

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  2. Brilliant , well done.

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  3. We always have a giggle over your term of Volunteer, as we on this side of the Pond, call them Self Sets, and We must be right???.
    A Controversial Wrinkly.

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  4. No doubt you're right, Mr. Wrinkly, but I shall continue to refer to them as volunteers. Keep giggling self-righteously. I still love you.

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  5. I meant to include this in today's posting:

    "Fueled by a million created wings of fire
    the rocket tore a tunnel through the sky
    and everybody cheered.

    Fueled only by the mystery of warm,
    moist soil, and a beckoning sun,
    the seedling urged its way through the thicknesses of black -
    and as it pierced the heavy ceiling of soil and launched itself up into outer space -
    no one even clapped."
    (Marcie Hans)

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  6. Gorgeous poem, Artist Jane. Thanks for including it!

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  7. Very nice. Thanks.

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  8. Thanks...it is the little things!

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  9. Loved the foto and the poem. You have the eye of a true artist and the heart of a poet...just to observe beauty and know the proper words to pair with it is a gift. T.O. Joanne

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