5 Minutes Of My Day - It is the simple things

The Flowers

By Robert Louis Stevenson

All the names I know from nurse:

Gardener’s garters, Shepherd’s purse,

Bachelor’s buttons, Lady’s smock,

And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, fairy things,

Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,

Tiny trees for tiny dames—

These must all be fairy names!

Tiny woods below whose boughs

Shady fairies weave a house;

Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,

Where the braver fairies climb!

Fair are grown-up people’s trees,

But the fairest woods are these;

Where, if I were not so tall,

I should live for good and all.

As a child I loved making hollyhocks dolls with my grandparents and our granddaughter’s make hollyhocks fairies with us.  So it is that hollyhocks are an instant reminder of summer day spent playing on the front lawn watching my grandmother tend her garden while I played with hollyhock dolls.

2016 Enjoying a gift from my grandson 

2016 Working on Great John's prayer shawl 

2015 The closer we get to Ontario the more cattle we see.

2014 On the highway with the big trucks.

Grandma Snyder

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