Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Giving Thanks for Trees and More

Sun through maple leaves at the Japanese Garden, Seattle



i thank You God for most this amazing

day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth

day of life and love and wings:and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any--lifted from the no

of all nothing--human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~e e cummings

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week. Autumn Leaves

...reading amidst the autumn leaves, Japanese Garden, Seattle...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~George Eliot

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Wisteria at the Japanese Garden

wisteria, Japanese Garden, Seattle

Perhaps it is possible

to be gentle no matter what, to seek not restraint

but surrender entirely, to turn

from the snarling reproach not into the keening

dismissal of hope but to whatever bright

fluttering is next, the bright fluttering

of wisteria petals...

- From "Fuschia" by Charlie Smith

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Rhododendrons, Japanese Garden

(beautiful rhdodendron, Japanese Garden)

...I thought of you in a clearing

green and sunlit, bordered by four

tall trees and the dusky spaces

between them where barely

discernible rhododendron

start the process of shadows...

~Elizabeth Morgan

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week

(white camelia, Japanese Garden)

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

~ William Carlos Williams

Picture of the Week

(Peaceful Koi, Japanese Gardens.)

Picture of the Week

(Fantastic camellias, outside the Japanese Garden.)

Early Spring in Seattle's Japanese Garden

Two days ago, Emma, Eric and I visited Seattle's Japanese Garden. It is one of my favorite places in Seattle. I always come away feeling rested, relaxed, rejuvenated. Beauty, calm, serenity, quiet, enough. Those are my synonyms for this garden.

It was a little early for the full flower show, so we will have to return in a few weeks. But here is some of what we saw a couple of days ago.

This camelia below.....

Inspired the creation of these earrings...