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Xata said:

Indeed a happy one, HFF Sarah
4 years ago ( translate )

Richard Nuttall said:

Very pleasant -HFF Sarah. that green fence is a really nice shade
4 years ago

Jaap van 't Veen said:

Beautiful flowers.
HFF and a nice weekend
4 years ago ( translate )

Annemarie said:

Wish you a marvelous weekend:)
HFF also:)
4 years ago ( translate )

Roger (Grisly) said:

Nice capture and lovely shadows Sarah,
HFF and a great weekend
4 years ago

tiabunna said:

A lovely colourful fence and fflowers. HFF and best wishes for the weekend.
4 years ago

Percy Schramm said:

That' s really a happy fence - nice colours here to see. HFF, enjoy your weekend, Sarah !
4 years ago

John FitzGerald said:

A good set of colours. All the best for the weekend.
4 years ago

Steve Bucknell said:

The Miracle of the Bees and the Foxgloves

Because hairs on their speckled daybeds baffle the little bees,
foxgloves come out to advertise for rich bumbling hummers,
who crawl into their tunnels-of-delight with drunken ease
(see Darwin’s chapters on his foxglove summers)
plunging over heckles caked with sex-appealing stuff
to sip from every hooker its intoxicating liquor
and stop it propagating in a corner with itself.

And this is how the foxflower keeps its sex life in order.
Two anthers—adolescent, in a hurry to dehisce—
let fly too soon, so pollen lies in drifts around the floor.
Along swims bumbler bee and makes an undercoat of this,
reverses, exits, lets it fall by accident next door.
So ripeness climbs the bells of Digitalis, flower by flower,
undistracted by a Mind, or a Design, or by desire.

Anne Stevenson
4 years ago

Sarah P. replied to Steve Bucknell:

What a delightful poem! The joy in nature and sprightly rhythm evokes Gerald Manley Hopkins, albeit in a distinctly 20th Century version, with sex and alcohol mixing and intoxicating brew. Great fun.
4 years ago

Steve Bucknell said:

I do like foxgloves, and this one towering out of frame.
4 years ago

Janet Brien said:

MARVELOUS!!! I just love this.
Gorgeous flowers and shadows to enjoy. A delight.

HFF! :)
4 years ago