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delicate blossoms
sensual shapes and colors
vibrating with life
nature’s beauty unfolding
a symphony for the heart
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Flowers have gotten me through many a dark time. They bring me such joy with their vibrant colors, delicate petals, sensual shapes, and ephemeral beauty. Flowers remind me to cherish the moment and give thanks for the grace of beauty, pollination, and the rhythms of life. I miss my own gardens while being grateful for our small community garden where I can feed my soul and watch the beauty of nature at play. The community garden has been thrumming with life; a festival of colors, shapes, insects, birds, and humans.
May we cherish the flowers that feed our souls and planet.
writing to freedom 
Beautiful photos.
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Thanks Tim.
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Wow! Both on photos and poem🌻
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Thank you Solitaire. 🙂
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Fantastic flowers indeed! Just gorgeous Brad! To blooming humans!!! And blossoming hope!
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Thank you Tania!
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Hi Brad, I feel the say way about flowers as you do. These are lovely pictures and I really, really love this poem.
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Thank you Robbie. I’m glad you can relate. I need my dose of flowers! 🌼
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Beautiful photos! Flowers do have a way of uplifting the soul. 🌼
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Agreed. Thanks Alethea! 😍
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“Flowers remind me to cherish the moment…” Oh yes! Your photos bring such joy, Brad! Thank you 😊 💜
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You’re most welcome Natalie. I’m glad you find joy in flowers and my photos. 🌷😍
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Bold❣️
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Thanks Val. 😍
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Gorgeous photos! I love macro. It’s a whole new world.
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Thanks Tara. I’m glad you share my love for the details in macro.
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Beautiful…
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Thanks Michelle.
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You’re welcome 🙂
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A respite for the eyes and mind, your post and flowers. Thank you, Brad. 💐
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You’re most welcome Michele. 😍
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Thank you, as always, for your great photos!!! Hurrah for flowers!!! I also love your use of language in both your poem and your prose — especially the word “thrumming.” (“The community garden has been thrumming with life; a festival of colors, shapes, insects, birds, and humans.”)
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Thanks Will. I’m glad you enjoy my prose and unusual words. Keep on thrumming my fellow nature lover! 😋
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Gorgeous!!!
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Thanks Ana!
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Beautiful, Brad! Focusing on the beauty of flowers is something that also feeds my soul. Nature in general always has a special way of grounding and inspiring me. 😊
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Thanks Julie. I’m glad you can relate. 😍
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Beautiful captures, Brad!! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Kirt!
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Describing a garden as a festival of color and life is just perfect, Brad. Beautiful photos and a lovely tanka. That community garden is getting a lot of love. Have a wonderful afternoon and week ahead. ❤ ❤
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Thanks Diana. The community garden is a bright spot in our community and my life. Hugs, 🙏🌼
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I love flowers too, Brad! I’ve never been very good in the garden…but where I live now we have an orchid lady. She has put orchids in just about every tree throughout the property! What a stunning time when the all bloom…they make me happy!
Hope you have a super week ahead!
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Thanks Lorrie. The orchids sound fun. ,💐
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Beautiful and brilliant capture of such wonderful flowers, Brad. Lovely poem and post. Too good.
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Thank you Kamal. 🙂
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Welcome dear Brad.
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Love your photography Brad, true beauty is what you are reflecting, no matter the pain we’re all being confronted with❤️ keep smiling and the flowers will keep saving the day😍 much love x
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Thanks Barbara. Yes, we need to keep reaching for love, beauty, and kindness in the midst of the changes. 💕
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Loved your poem and wonderful photographs Brad… Where would we be without our gardens and the beauty to behold in them… I am delighted at least you have a community garden in which you can sit and observe nature at work…
Sending warm well wishes Brad.. ❤
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Agreed Sue and thank you. I love and need flowers, gardens, and nature time. 🌼💕
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Me too Brad ⚘️🌱🌿🌻☘️🌲🌺🌸🏵🦋🐞🌼🍃🙏😁
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That Zinnia. Wow!! Another beautiful post. Thank you for brightening my day with these flowers.
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Thanks Bridgette. I feel the same about zinnias. They’re wonderfully vibrant to brighten our days.
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That first photo blew me away! Fantastic. I love the perspective you chose. It’s unusual and perfect for your poem. They are all beautiful, but that one is especially striking!
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Thank you Ka. Flowers are food for my soul. I’m glad you could share in the nourishment. 🌷
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Thanks Brad! Yes, I feel similarly about flowers 💐
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Shades of orange on the last flower is a wonder of nature.
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Thank you Eunice. I love that color too!
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