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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
My heart rests in yours
along this trail of life
companions and soulmates
from youth I’ve been your wife
The years have added up
tallied, as on a pockmarked tree
beautiful – though thoroughly aged
with all that has been
The Sun has shined salient
upon our cedar grove
as children approach adulthood
one by one they’re on their own
We’ve led them to Living Streams
each chooses to partake or not
Our roots embedded deep to drink
nourishing our inner thoughts
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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