Watery Wednesday

This week's Watery Wednesday offering is one to bring us a reminder of the spring to come. All this snow and rain and gray skies have been fun (ahem) but I'm ready for the heady scent of spring, ready for Eve's daffodils to pop up, smile and wave at her, ready for the mystery viburnum to bloom in the backyard, ready for Hattie and Bess to bloom along the fence row, and ready for the waterlilies at Huntsville Botanical Gardens.

"But for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply."

Charles Dickens

Water Lily

Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by A. Poulin

My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.
The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rhythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors...

Hi!
Dragonflies

by Moeze Lalji

Come on in
The summer is shinning
The windows are yours

Beer you don't drink
Tea you don't drink

You can sit on the sofa
Put your wings up
Life is bight

So just fly and write
Whatever you want
On my wall

If Monet saw you he would want to paint you
so that your beauty and these colors would be forever remembered;
this my favorite waterlily photograph.

Photographs taken at
Huntsville Botanical Gardens

Debi