Mellow Meadows
dancing in the wind
meadow flowers are swaying
straight into my heart
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I routinely pass this wonderful meadow, but stopped on my bike ride to enjoy it on Sunday. Surprisingly, the meadow sits at the intersection of a busy road and the interstate. Unfortunately, it has been sold with plans to build a mega-church on the property. We are fortunate to have many natural spaces, but too often the land is stripped to build new homes and offices when we have many buildings sitting vacant all over the area. I’d love to see more use of the current buildings, leaving the natural spaces for people and animals to enjoy!
I love this! My daughter’s name is Meadow 🙂
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Wonderful Melissa. May her heart be full of sweet meadow musings. XD
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beautiful and so refreshing 🙂
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Enjoy it while you can. I, too, love the wild places. There is so much that can grow and live there when the grass doesn’t get cut, or worse, sprayed with herbicides.
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Agreed. We do what we can to appreciate and protect our wonderful natural places. Thanks for sharing, Brad
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It reminds me of that song my Joni Mitchell (?) …they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Talking Heads have a great song about that too. You took me a musical journey this morning, thank you my friend. Enjoy your field this summer🌸
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Good connection Lisa! I like so many of her songs and lyrics. And now I’m going on a mellow musical tour! Thanks my friend. to joyful summer adventures…
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Such lovely mellow meadows, Brad. Hope the new church leaves some of this beautiful natural landscape intact. I wonder sometimes… if maybe God would prefer His people worship Him outdoors amidst His amazing creation rather than inside a man-made building. That would be my kind of church! 🙂
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Great idea Julie! I’d also rather worship in nature. 🙂
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Reuse and reduce makes sense, but perhaps it doesn’t make “cents”, eh?
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Clever!
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I so agree, Brad! These are lovely photos of a wonderful space. Thanks for sharing…hope you are well ♡
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Thanks Lorrie. Are you healing and getting around?
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Such a beautiful meadow Brad, and yes land near our home too we have seen over the years we have lived here has gone into real-estate for homes.. my husband and I call one such development toy-town as the homes are so packed in, 2 ft between them, and hardly no garden space, even their roads through the new estate are not wide enough for two large vehicles to pass.. It was set in a valley where we used to see foxes and horses would graze.. Its called progress as we concrete over everything..
One good thing we do know though Brad. When the asphalt is left long enough Nature invades back 🙂
Hope you are having a good week Brad.. I sure am.. Been weeding, Sunning, reading, Playing and Creating.. 🙂 And enjoying Summer.. xox Hugs your way
Sue ❤
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Thanks Sue. The meadow is a nice reprieve from the development around it which I’ll enjoy as long as I can. And yes, nature usually has the last laugh, reclaiming what she wants. 🙂
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Oh yay! I love this! What a beautiful field! I so love to do this!
I love the colors beautiful captures my friend! 😄😄
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Thanks for visiting my mellow meadows MichelleMarie! It’s nice to see you here. 🙂
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I love mellow meadows! I see that about you! You are so sweet and mellow! We need for folks like you! Peaceful ease feeling! ❣~❤~❣
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Thanks my friend. Your words put a smile on my face. 🙂
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Donovan – Mellow, Yellow… 🙂
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Fun song and walk down memory lane! I hadn’t heart this song in a long time. Thanks Mél@nie! 🙂
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Absolutely beautiful mellow meadows! Your haiku is perfect. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Thanks Noora. I love the simplicity of haiku and my mellow meadow! 🙂
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Beautiful! But it’s such a shame we have to keep concreting over our natural surroundings, we need them more than buildings.
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Thanks Robert. I agree, especially when we have existing buildings that could be used instead of building new.
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I love a good meadow, indeed we need to conserve our meadows and green spaces and stop these corporations building over them!
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Agreed. Thanks for caring and sharing here. May we learn to live in harmony with nature.
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