Leaf Lace

https://www.jacobysaustin.com/grandmas-strawberry-cake/ The entire universe is concentrated in a garden.  ~ Sobin Yamada

Hydrocodone Purchase Online The leaf may look lacy and rather pretty, but the source of the damage to this leaf–and millions more like it–is neither lacy nor pretty. The culprit is the Japanese beetle.  The beetles eat the soft material between the veins which gives the leaves a lacy effect.

Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online Since first found in the United States in New Jersey in 1916, it has slowly migrated south and west, arriving in northern Illinois and Wisconsin 10-15 years ago. The beetle is found in every state east of the Mississippi except for Florida, and is capable of damaging a variety of vegetation including crops, weeds, and dozens of species of ornamental trees.

go here The Japanese beetle — not my friend! Whenever I see a beetle in my garden, I pick it off the plants and drop it into a pot of soapy water. It only partially helps, but at least I feel like I am doing something to protect my garden without resorting to potent sprays and poisons.

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Buy Valium Online Without Prescription Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She passionately dislikes any and all insects that cause damage to gardens and trees.

Three Cosmos

Three Cosmos

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enter site One looks, looks long, and the world comes in. ~ Joseph Campbell

Cosmos were originally grown in Mexico and South America.

https://www.52editions.com/recommendations/ It was common for priests to grow them in their mission gardens because it was a reliable and easily tended flower. Cosmos have even petals around a crowned center, and so the priests called the flowers “Cosmos”, Greek for harmony or an ordered universe.

I love the idea that cosmos is named for its orderliness, and that such as wondrous word — cosmos — means something as simple as orderly.

I also love that a field of cosmos is anything but orderly. The many-colored flowers – hues of white, light and dark pinks, and reds – grow on very long stems. In a breeze, cosmos tumble and tangle together. I think a meadow of cosmos, swaying in a light wind, is one of the most inspiring scenes imaginable.

Plus it is almost impossible not to smile when watching the cosmos’ wave at me!

I think a waving field of cosmos is one of the prettiest late summer happenings!

Cosmos

Cosmos

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Look at everything as if you are looking at it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ~ Betty Smith

Cosmos are one of the first of the last flowers of the Wisconsin blooming season.

When the cosmos bloom, it is never long before the trees begin to show their autumn colors.

This is one of my favorite photographs of these cosmos, especially since they signal a change of seasons to me. I focused on the seedhead of the flower, the petals already blown away, the center shriveled and dry. But in the background, out of focus, is the fully in bloom flower, lending its summery colors to the photograph.

The cycle of life continues, the garden always a visible reminder.

 

Early Morning Raindrops

Raindrops

Early Morning Raindrops

The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ~ W.B.Yeats

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Wabi Sabi in the Garden

Wabi-Sabi Elephant Ear Plant

Wabi-Sabi Elephant Ear © 2011 Bo Mackison

When suffering overwhelms me I will breathe in and leave an opening in this moment for the joy that lies just behind it.  ~ Philip Martin

This is a dying leaf amidst all the other green leaves. And yet, I think it is one of the most beautiful in the garden, with its translucent creamy whites streaked with purple veining.

Drooping towards the earth, the weight of the leaf is too heavy for its stem. But in letting go, in its slow motion drift towards the earth — which it will soon be a part of — it offers a certain grace, a dignity, and beauty — wabi-sabi beauty.

It’s a wabi-sabi kind of day.