Category Archives: Flowers

Winterlude

Winterlude, winterlude, oh darlin’
Winterlude by the road tonight
Tonight there will be no quarrelin’
Everything is gonna be all right
Oh, I see by the angel beside me
That love has a reason to shine
You’re the one I adore, come over here and give me more
Then winterlude, this dude thinks you’re fine

Winterlude, winterlude, my little apple
Winterlude by the corn in the field
Winterlude, let’s go down to the chapel
Then come back and cook up a meal
Well, come out when the skating rink glistens
By the sun, near the old crossroads sign
The snow is so cold, but our love can bold
Winterlude, this dude thinks you’re fine

Winterlude, winterlude, my little daisy
Winterlude by the telephone wire
Winterlude, it’s makin’ me lazy
Come on, sit by the logs in the fire
The moonlight reflects from the window
Where the snowflakes, they cover the sand
Come out tonight, everything will be tight
Winterlude, this dude thinks you’re grand
-Written and Performed by Bob Dylan

I can’t stand Bob Dylan as a performer, but anybody that can write a lyric like “this dude thinks you’re fine” is a songwriting genius in my book.

But Thursdays are for flowers. This flowertography session took place in my yard and includes a couple of bonus Bokeh images!


Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

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Flower

Nature's Amen - 2024

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Last Penny - 2024

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Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

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Bokeh

Bokeh

Next Thursday’s flowertography session will also take place in my yard.

Truly

It is Thanksgiving! So I need to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!


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Happy Thanksgiving!

I used to use this Thanksgiving entry to list some of the blessings in my life. I fully intended to do that again this year, because it has been 3 years since I have done that. I just looked back at the one I did in 2019. The year before the pandemic. 4 months before the pandemic. And it is actually quite startling the amount of people I featured as my blessings that I don’t see any more. For a wide variety of reasons. But my life is still filled with blessings. Maybe next year I will share them again.

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Girl, tell me only this
That I have your heart for always
And you want me by your side
Whispering the words, “I’ll always love you”

And forever
I will be your lover
And I know if you really care
I will always be there

Now, I need to tell you this
There’s no other love like your love
And I, as long as I live, I’ll give you all the joy
My heart and soul can give

Let me hold you
I need to have you near me
And I feel with you in my arms
This love will last forever

Because I’m truly
Truly in love with you, girl, yeah
I’m, I’m truly love you, yeah
Head over heels with your love, with your love

I, I need you
Oh, and with your love, I’m free, yeah
I’m, I’m truly
You know you’re alright with me, me, yeah

Truly in love with you, girl
Truly head over heels
Head over heels with your love, yeah, yeah, yeah
Truly, head over heels with your love, baby
Truly, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
Mmm, with you, yeah, yeah, yeah
-Written and Performed by Lionel Richie

Who doesn’t truly love Lionel Richie?

But Thursdays are for flowers! This flowertography session took place in my yard.


Nature's Amen - 2024

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Last Penny - 2024

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Last Penny - 2024

Our next flowertography session also took place in my yard!

A Heart Full of Love

Waiting here

A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I’m doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mademoiselle
Won’t you say?
Will you tell?

A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
My name is Marius Pontmercy
And mine’s Cosette
Cosette, I don’t know what to say
Then make no sound
I am lost
I am found

A heart full of love (he was never mine to lose)
A heart full of you
A single look and then I knew (why regret what could not be?)
I knew it too (these are words he’ll never say, not to me)
From today (not to me, not, for me)
Every day
(His heart full of love) for it isn’t a dream
(He will never feel this way) not a dream after all
Songwriters: Herbert Kretzmer / Alain Albert Boublil / Jean-marc Natel / Claude-michel Schonberg
From the musical: Les Miserables

One of my absolute favorite musicals, but not one of my favorite songs from it. Still a great song.

But Thursdays are for flowers. This flowertography session took place in my yard:


Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

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Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

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Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Next Thursday’s flowertography collection also took place in my yard.

Light On

Would you believe me now
If I told you I got caught up in a wave?
Almost gave it away
Would you hear me out
If I told you I was terrified for days?
Thought I was gonna break

Oh, I couldn’t stop it
Tried to slow it all down
Crying in the bathroom
Had to figure it out
With everyone around me saying
“You must be so happy now”

Oh, if you keep reachin’ out
Then I’ll keep comin’ back
‘Cause if you’re gone for good
Then I’m okay with that
If you leave the light on
Then I’ll leave the light on
(Light on, light on, light on)
And I am findin’ out
There’s just no other way
That I’m still dancin’
At the end of the day
If you leave the light on
Then I’ll leave the light on
(Light on, light on, light on)

And do you believe me now
That I always had the best intentions, babe?
Always wanted to stay
And can you feel me now
That I’m vulnerable in oh-so many ways?
Oh, and I’ll never change

Oh, I couldn’t stop it
Tried to figure it out
But everything kept moving
And the noise got too loud
With everyone around me saying
“You should be so happy now”

Oh, if you keep reachin’ out
Then I’ll keep comin’ back
And if you’re gone for good
Then I’m okay with that
And if you leave the light on
Then I’ll leave the light on
(Light on, light on, light on)
And I am findin’ out
There’s just no other way
That I’m still dancin’
At the end of the day
And if you leave the light on
Then I’ll leave the light on
(Light on, light on, light on)

Oh, leave the light on
Oh, would you leave the light on?
Oh

If you keep reachin’ out
Then I’ll keep comin’ back
But if you’re gone for good
Then I’m okay with that
If you leave the light on
Then I’ll leave the light on
(Light on, light on, light on)
And I am findin’ out
There’s just no other way
That I’m still dancin’
At the end of the day
And if you leave the light on
Then I’ll leave the light on
(Light on, light on, light on)

Oh, if you leave the light on
Then I’ll leave the light on
Oh, if you leave the light on
Mm
-Written by Margaret Debay Rogers & Thomas Edward Percy Hull
-Performed by Maggie Rogers

This is a brief one. This is a small collection of a Missouri Primrose that grows between my driveway and my house. I got these flowers from Grandma at some point. If my recollection is correct. There is also a bonus picture of Bokeh in there.


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Bokeh

Our next flowertography session will also involve flowers from my yard. Try to act surprised.

Requiem

Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus

Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus

Huic ergo parce Deus
Pie Jesu, Jesu Domine

Dona eis requiem
Dona eis requiem
Amen
-By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Xaver Sussmayr

One of the most well known and loved pieces of classical music has an interesting history. From the Wiki:

The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had commissioned the piece for a requiem service on 14 February 1792 to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of his wife Anna at the age of 20 on 14 February 1791.

The autograph manuscript shows the finished and orchestrated movement of Introit in Mozart’s hand, and detailed drafts of the Kyrie and the sequence of Dies irae as far as the first eight bars of the Lacrimosa, and the Offertory. It cannot be shown to what extent Süssmayr may have depended on now lost “scraps of paper” for the remainder; he later claimed the Sanctus and Benedictus and the Agnus Dei as his own.

Walsegg probably intended to pass the Requiem off as his own composition, as he is known to have done with other works. This plan was frustrated by a public benefit performance for Mozart’s widow Constanze. She was responsible for a number of stories surrounding the composition of the work, including the claims that Mozart received the commission from a mysterious messenger who did not reveal the commissioner’s identity, and that Mozart came to believe that he was writing the Requiem for his own funeral.

The lyrics at the beginning of the post and are just the introit. Translated into English they are:

Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them.
You are praised, God, in Zion,
and homage will be paid to You in Jerusalem.
Hear my prayer, to You all flesh will come.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them.

The next session of the Requiem is the Kyrie which simply states:

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.

And ends with the Communion:

Let eternal light shine on them,
Lord, as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful

Any ways, it is one of the most beautiful pieces of music every written. And it is a love song for the departed. Maybe not the typical love song. But a love song. And I consider it apropos cause this week began with All Saints Sunday (in my church) and I think everyone knows what this week is the anniversary of.

But Thursdays are for flowers. This Thursday’s flowertography session took place in my yard:


Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

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Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve flowers from my yard. Again.

(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden

Today is Halloween, so I need to start this post off by wishing all of you a Happy Halloween.


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Happy Halloween!

May your Halloween be filled with candy, costumes, friends, pumpkins, horror movies, and even more candy! And may the real horror of the holiday be the AI Photoshop job I did on this grain-bin-o-lantern in Ogden.

BUT as you may recall on Halloween, I like to reveal my annual Candy Power Rankings. So… without further adieu…

CANDY POWER RANKINGS


10. Caramello
9. Clark
8. Baby Ruth
7. Pretzel M&M’s
6. Snickers
5. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
4. Twix Caramel
3. Peanut M&M’s
2. Take 5
1. Whatchamacallit

My word if final and is beyond contestation. I will take no questions at this time.

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I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There’s gotta be a little rain sometime

When you take, you gotta give
So live and let live or let go, whoa-whoa-whoa
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden

I could promise you things like big diamond rings
But you don’t find roses growin’ on stalks of clover
So you better think it over

Well, if sweet-talkin’ you could make it come true
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter
But what would it matter

So smile for a while and let’s be jolly
Love shouldn’t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There’s gotta be a little rain sometime

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden

I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon
But if that’s what it takes to hold you
I’d just as soon let you go
But there’s one thing I want you to know

You better look before you leap, still waters run deep
And there won’t always be someone there to pull you out
And you know what I’m talking about

So smile for a while and let’s be jolly
Love shouldn’t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There’s gotta be a little rain sometime

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
– Written by Stephanie Nicks
– Performed by Lynn Anderson

Unlike Lynn Anderson I will promise any of you a rose garden. Meaning I promise that I would take any of you on a trip to the State Center Rose Garden with me next year. The line forms to the left.

Time to share the balance of pictures I took on my trip to The State Center Rose Garden with Brandon, Elainie, and Sabas.


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Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve flowers from my yard.

Every Rose Has Its Thorn

We both lie silently still
In the dead of the night
Although we both lie close together
We feel miles apart inside

Was it something I said or something I did
Did my words not come out right
Though I tried not to hurt you
Though I tried
But I guess that’s why they say

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn
Yeah it does

I listen to her favorite song
Playing on the radio
Hear the DJ say loves a game of easy come and
Easy go
But I wonder does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know that you’d be here right now
If I could have let you know somehow I guess

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

Though it’s been a while now
I could still feel so much pain
Like the knife that cuts you the wound heals
But the scar, that scar remains

I know I could have saved a love that night
If I’d known what to say
Instead of makin’ love
We both made our separate ways

And now I hear you found somebody new
And that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife I guess

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn
-Written by: Bobby Dall / Bret Michaels / Bruce Anthony Johannesson / Rikki Rockett
Performed by Poison

This song is maybe a little on the noise for this collection of flower images. They were taken on a trip to the State Center Rose Garden with Brandon, Elainie, and Sabas.


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Still one more collection of images from State Center left to share!

More than Words

Saying “I love you”
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It’s not that I want you
Not to say but if you only knew

How easy, it would be to show me how you feel
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn’t have to say that you love me
‘Cause I’d already know

What would you do
If my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say
If I took those words away?
Then you couldn’t make things new
Just by saying “I love you”

La-di-da, da-di-da
Di-dai-dai-da
More than words
La-di-da, da-di-da

Now that I’ve tried to
Talk to you and make you understand
All you have to do is close your eyes
And just reach out your hands and touch me

Hold me close, don’t ever let me go
More than words is all I ever needed you to show
Then you wouldn’t have to say that you love me
‘Cause I’d already know

What would you do
If my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say
If I took those words away?
Then you couldn’t make things new
Just by saying “I love you”
-Written by Nuno Bettencourt & Gary Cherone
-Performed by Extreme

No real reason for picking this song other than I heard it on the radio recently and it is 100% a banger. In fact the album it comes from “Pornograffiti” is filled with bangers. Like “Hole Hearted” and “Decadence Dance” to name just a couple. In fact I might have to pick it up for a future New to Me Vinyl Friday. Watch your Snapchat. It might just come to you soon. No promises though.

But Thursdays are for flowers and this flowertography session took place entirely in my yard.


Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

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Solace of Ordinary Humanity - 2024

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Happiness Shared - 2024

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Unceasing Effort - 2023

Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve the State Center Rose Garden!

My Eyes Adored You

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away from me
You couldn’t see how I adored you
So close, so close and yet so far

Carried your books from school
Playin’ make believe you’re married to me
You were fifth grade, I was sixth when we came to be
Walking home every day over Bonnicut Bridge and Bay
‘Til we grew into the me and you
Who went our separate ways

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away from me
You couldn’t see how I adored you
So close, so close and yet so far

Headed for city lights
Climbed the ladder up to fortune and fame
I worked my fingers to the bone
Made myself a name
Funny, I seem to find
That no matter how the years unwind
Still I reminisce about the girI miss
And the love I left behind

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away from me
You couldn’t see how I adored you
So close, so close and yet so far
All my life I will remember (Though I never laid a hand on you)
How warm and tender we were way back then (My eyes adored you)
Whoa-whoa, baby (Like a million miles away from me)
(You couldn’t see how I adored you)
Oh the feeling, sad regrets (So close)
I know I won’t ever forget you, my childhood friend (So close and yet so far)

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
Like a million miles away from me
You couldn’t see how I adored you
So close, so close and yet so far

My eyes adored you
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you
-Written by Kenny Nolan & Robert Crewe
-Performed by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

This Thursday’s collection of flowertography images were taken in my yard. They were taken for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme WORK.


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Girl in the Blue Skirt - 2024

Next Thursday’s flowertography session will also involve flowers from my yard.