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Sometimes the plantmobile stops at places other than gardens or nurseries. Between gardens in the Olympia area a couple of weeks ago, Carmen (Elantra) pulled off the side of the road to allow us to see this.
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A moment of peace as butterflies came to drink on the shore and neon blue bodied damselflies glittered all around.
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Sometimes the plantmobile stops at places other than gardens or nurseries. Between gardens in the Olympia area a couple of weeks ago, Carmen (Elantra) pulled off the side of the road to allow us to see this.
A moment of peace as butterflies came to drink on the shore and neon blue bodied damselflies glittered all around.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's words came to mind:
Silent Noon
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, -
The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms
'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.
All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge
Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge.
'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky;-
So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate houre
When twofold silence was the song of love.
The poem was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and is one of my favorite songs.