A Dandelion Day

Christian, marriage, nature, photography, poetry 1 Minute

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A Dandelion Day

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Moments slip by seamlessly

with the one you love

drifting dandelion umbrellas

airborne like minute doves

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My heart rests in yours

along this trail of life

 companions and soulmates

from youth I’ve been your wife

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The years have added up

tallied, as on a pockmarked tree

beautiful – though thoroughly aged

with all that has been

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The Sun has shined salient

upon our cedar grove

as children approach adulthood

one by one they’re on their own

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We’ve led them to Living Streams

each chooses to partake or not

Our roots embedded deep to drink

nourishing our inner thoughts

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Soon unveiled eyes behold

what only faith could see

a fruit-filled tree of life

barred no more from sons of Eve.

Wendy/2013

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I have shared with you, Hurford Hill Nature Park, one of our favorite neighborhood walks.  This 26.7 acre park, walking distance from our home, was donated by Roberts A. and Adela Smith in 1996 to the town of Courtenay. It has Glen Urquhart Creek (salmon bearing) meandering through it. They were a wise couple in that they made sure a conservation covenant was attached to the land to protect and preserve it as a natural park.

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Nature Blessings ~ Wendy

On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 22:2

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Published by Wendy L. Macdonald

Living for Jesus, loving Him, and listening for His voice bring me great joy. I'm an inspirational writer who also loves photographing creation and making handbound journals. ~ My faith is not shallow because I've been rescued from the deep. ~ Blessings ~ Wendy ❀ https://wendylmaccreations.etsy.com

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90 thoughts on “A Dandelion Day”

  21. The photos and verse are delightful. We had an issue with our creek…we thought a limb had fallen, but it was 1/3 of a very large tree. We had to take it out so that it wouldn’t block the flow.

    Cheers.

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    1. Thank you, Jules! In some of our parks beavers like to make dams. I could not believe how big a tree they felled at the latest park we visited. I’m glad you were able to move the tree.

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  30. What I always love about your poems is the world of life attached to it, at the end of each poem. Reading this has surely enriched my life. God bless you for that! I wanted to click like but it wasn’t working, I don’t know why. But you have touched me deeply and I’ll sleep easy tonight.
    Shalom. 🙂 🙂

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  42. I like you love trees and nature I am glad there are people dedicated to preserving it. I really enjoyed the pictures captured in such detail it would seem you are a bit of an artist behind the lense as well as the pen.

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I enjoy a word in season, so I'd love it if you added an apple to the bowl.

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