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I love spending time with a friend when there’s mutual
acceptance, appreciation, and admiration present.
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The spider and the rose don’t have a lot in common,
but I suspect that they’re mutually beneficial.
The spider isn’t envious of the rose’s beauty;
nor is the rose threatened by the spider’s cleverness.
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I love spending time with a friend who thinks the best of me
and wants the best for me.
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I like honest friends.
Friends that humbly warn me
if they think I’m wandering off the path are treasures.
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I appreciate friends that aren’t defensive
if I lovingly warn them about straying too.
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Is any pleasure on earth
as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
~ C.S. Lewis
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I’ve cheated when it comes to spending time with friends.
I married my best friend.
What do you value most in a good friend?
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Friendship Blessings ❀ Wendy
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A friend loves at all times
Proverbs 17:17
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Wendy, these are gorgeous photos. I had to look back three times at the second photo to actually see the spider! What a great find! The beautiful words on friendship are so true, and enhance the portraits, too!
Thank you, Susan. Little creatures often show up on my pictures accidentally. I spotted this spider and took several shots of it. ❀
Lovely!
Thank you ❀
Wendy, you words on friendship are so deeply meaningful. Put together with those marvellous images of roses it speaks in a way which is so profoundly beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you, Don. I appreciate your comment since I was hoping people weren’t tired of roses yet. It’s a short season in our garden for the old-fashioned roses. ❀
Wendy, you take the most amazing photos! And the verses on them are just exquisite. Simply wonderful! xx
Thank you, Christine. xo I only show the ones that turned out… ❀
Beautiful 🙂
Blessings Friend and Have a Great Week End ~
Thank you, Morgan. Blessings on your weekend & your writing. ❀
Why thank you Wendy 🙂 Im working on writing a one page synopsis for Dark Fey this weekend so I can send off some Query letters to agents,….which is why I haven’t be ’round much 😉 So I do very much appreciate your blessing!! 😀
These are exciting times for you. I’ve written my short synopsis—but I’m still tweaking my novel. It was wonderful to find lots of tips online for how to do a synopsis (otherwise I would have been overwhelmed). Blessings on your query journey, Morgan. ❀
I agree, online resources are such a blessing! Best of Luck on YOUR journey as well. I wish you all the best of success 🙂
Lovely photos, as always and a wonderful tribute to friendship. I married my best friend, too. Blessings to you and yours, Ellen
Thank you, Ellen. I love hearing that someone has married their best friend. It’s one of the secrets to an intimate and lasting marriage. ❀
The language of Friendship…beautifully spoken in imagery and word, Wendy! Bless you, my friend ~Zoey
Thank you, Zoey. Thank you also for the re-blog. Keep writing dear friend. ❀
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~ ❀ Friends & Roses ❀ ~ by Wendy Macdonald
Beautiful pictures.
Thank you, Vik. ❀
Beautiful post, my friend. I like the CS Lewis quote. I also like this friend quote of his – “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… (photography:-) It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.””
Thank you, Bill. I LOVE the quote you shared. It sure would be interesting to listen in on some of the conversations that JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis had together. ❀
Woooooow amazing Photo’s
Thank you, Marylou. ❀
Wendy:
I have sincerely enjoyed your series on Friendship. Your latest photo, the extreme close-up of the (full frame) pink rose, was absolutely superb!
And as a Naturalist, I loved the clever spider within the rose petals. Nice place to spend your day.
I, too, am married to my best friend. Thanks again for your delicious words. – Richard
Thank you, Richard, for visiting my blog. I’m honored that you liked my pictures (your photography & poems are spectacular). Life is sweeter when you’re married to your best friend. ❀
Beautiful.
Thank you ❀
I enjoy your weekend serving of photos and thoughts, Wendy. I shared this particular post on my Facebook page so all my friends can know how special they are! Blessings to you my “blogging” friend! Laura
Thank you so much, Laura. I sure enjoy seeing nature through your pictures, dear friend. Your quotes are always so inspirational too. Do you ever wonder what the flowers in heaven will look like? I suspect that the colors will be amazing. ❀
You’re very welcome, Wendy. I have thought about the flowers we’ll see and my imagination cannot fathom the richness and beauty that we will be surrounded with there! And they won’t compare to the beauty we’ll see in Him! goosebumps…….:)
So very true. ❀
So wonderful . ..I thought I even could smell them right through the screen. 🙂 And I love that you married your best friend .. what a beautiful thing! I love how friends share the little details of daily life with me . . . it blesses me so much and helps me feel connected. God bless you always!
Thank you, Debbie. I like what you said about loving to hear ‘the little details of daily life’. It’s amazing how comforting it is to find out we’re ‘not alone’ in our dreams and struggles. ❀
Dear sister Wendy,
As always, so beautiful. I just thingking if i could save on of these stunning photo and i will print it out,sis. I really love the white flowers 🙂 May you give me permission to print it. Thank you and blessings to you 🙂
Thank you, Karina. You are more than welcome to print out any picture for your own personal use. I’m honored.❀
I appreciate friends who take time to post exquisite photos and loving words.
Thank you. I am always so impressed with the thought and care that you put into your posts. ❀
It’s nice to be able to do the best one can at any given time. 🙂
True. I need a live-in editor to achieve that with writing. It seems as if there are evil minions in my keyboard lately. 😉
I don’t know if there is room for evil minions in my keyboard. Every time I look closely I find hundreds of miniature dust bunnies! I think they are feasting on the hundreds of toast crumbs!
🙂 You’ve made me chuckle. So off to bed I go to dream of crumb eating dust bunnies and chocolate craving evil minions (now you know why I’ll never be able to get rid of them). z z Z
Ah, I see! Sweet dreams.
Wendy your flowers a beautiful and I love the spider hiding there. I think for me real friends don’t judge you, they take you how you are, no matter what in good times and bad.
Thank you, Kath. I agree with what you said about friends who take you as you are. A friend that loves unconditionally is a friend to treasure forever. ❀
Well said. Which in my world means they are rare. Of course, that might have something to do with it being California. I can’t wait to move.
Jacqui, I’m so grateful for mail, e-mail, and telephones for keeping in touch with special friends from former places I’ve lived. ❀ Distance and time are powerless against kindred spirits.
To have a true friend is a special gift. Beautiful post Wendy.
Thank you, Nin. True friends are beautiful on the inside. ❀
Your photos are stunning and breathtaking’ your thoughts are very touching.
Thank you, Charlie. I imagine that you’ve been enjoying roses in Seattle since our climates are similar. ❀
Deep and beautiful as always, Wendy.
I hope you have a marvelous weekend. Best wishes to you,
Aquileana 😀
Thank you, dear Aquileana. ❀ I always appreciate your encouragement.
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I am so humbled and cheered by Wendy’s wonderful work that marries, seemingly seamlessly, the beauty of her words and pictures. Today’s gift is about friendship, which pass along to all of my virtual friends. Thank you to Wendy and thank you to all of you for abiding with me in this space.
Wonderful post, Wendy…I just had to reblog it. But wanted to say also that I, too, married my best friend. I wonder sometimes if our closeness, his and mine, makes it more challenging to form friendships with others. Blessings on your Sunday, Mary
Thank you, Mary. I think that being married to a best friend makes one more selective of who you let into your inner circle. We are advised to choose our friends wisely. I think it’s a good thing. Thank you for the re-blog, dear friend. ❀
Absolutely beautiful, Wendy. 🙂
Thank you, Skye. I enjoyed reading your recent posts. Your writing and pictures always bless me. ❀
Thank you, Sweet Friend! <3
Apple is Fruit, has seeds, can be spread by planting, so are the Fruit of the Spirit! I love the analogy!
First, thanks for coming by my new blog and commenting. My prayer is always that as the Lord sees fit to use me as a vessel, others will hear or read His words and not mine that He may be glorified.
I absolutely love this Photo “Sermon” on Friends and Roses! It is so unique, but so eye-catching and full of God’s beauty. If more could see what is around them as God’s continuing miracles, life on this temporary planet would be “nearly” heaven!! Thank you for using the Gifts the Lord has given you and sharing them with so many. Your blog is a true example of the diversity AND the necessity of the Body of Christ, using there gifts for the service (ministry) of the Lord as well as each of us.
I will definitely be following your blog and probably your Facebook as soon as I “stroll” over there. I will be adding your link to my Link Page as I don’t use the WP widget as it constricts the number of links. I praise God for sites like yours that give inspiration and encouragement in such a unique way!
I pray God’s richest and abundant blessings on you and yours as you continue to serve from your heart to all of us and your Lord! Again, God bless.
Thank you, Pastor Roland, for visiting me back and for your appreciated words of encouragement. I have purposely tried to make my blog appeal to people on both sides of the fence of faith. Nothing would please me more than to have encouraged someone to enter through the narrow gate of Christ.
Blessings ~ Wendy ❀
Wendy, a true friendship is indeed a treasure worth nurturing. I suppose I cheated too, when I married my best friend. 🙂
The roses are perfectly gorgeous!
Thank you, Jennifer. I think, as writers, it’s handy to be married to our best friend since we tend to spend a lot of time alone. I suspect that your husband is very supportive of your writing too. ❀
Long live roses and friendships. Each shares something wonderful. Roses, their beauty and scent – Friends, their love and support.
Thank you, Mary, for the lovely comment. I appreciate the ‘love and support’ I receive from blogger friends like you. ❀
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
Thank you, Teresa. ❀
What a lovely tribute to friends. And I have to say the rose with the spider is my favorite! I don’t really like spiders but he’s so cute in this picture! I have to say I was thankful for a spider that found his way to the top of my tent at my art show. He got rid of all the bugs up there! He cleaned the place out! hehe. And when the show was over I gave him a little nudge and he fell off his web back into the grass.
Thank you, Linda. I appreciate the spider’s role in the garden. How nice of that one to choose an out of the way spot to make its web. It’s not pleasurable walking through ones that they spin lower down. ❀
Oh. My. Lovely! Thank you for connecting with me at http://familyanswersfast.wordpress.com/ , Wendy. I look forward to enjoying your blog 🙂
Thank you, Angie, for your inspiring post that I read. There’s a bible proverb that says we are what we think. Your post reminds me to take more care to think positive. Hope is good. ❀
Amen! And you are right. We need to avoid distorted thinking which can mislead our feelings and pull us away from love and all that is good. Yes, all is good, thanks, Wendy! How nice to connect 🙂 Happy Thursday and dare I say weekend already? Yes!
Like Roses, friendship must be nurtured and cared for, thanks for this awesome post Wendy. You have a way of fusing words together to make it beautiful and timeless!
Blessings and love to you! 🙂
Thank you, Seyi. Blessings and love to you also. I’m coming over to see what you’ve been writing. ❀
Glad to see you around Wendy! 🙂
These are beautiful, Wendy! I love the picture with the rose and the spider. And your words. Soothing to the spirit.
Thank you, Jeanne. Blessings as you celebrate your July 4th holiday weekend. ❀
What lovely photos and words about friendship! Sending smiles for the weekend to you, Wendy 🙂
Thank you, Christy. Blessings for this new week. ❀
You are very good at this, Wendy! 🙂 Orange is so in, and you represented it perfectly!
Nice to meet you! Green gives and gives, thank God! Peace and luvz, Uncle Tree
Thank you, Uncle Tree. It’s nice to meet you too. All of creation gives and mankind needs to take better care of it. ❀
These images are absolutely beautiful! 🙂
Thank you, Zara. Your Rising Soul poem is eloquent. ❀