The Day Before Frost – Flowers
November 15th, 2014We had our first hard frost in St. Louis a few nights ago. It is always a bittersweet time, with the last sweetness of flower blooms and the bitter bite of cold the morning after.
Flower Mandalas – From My Garden
October 3rd, 2014I haven’t been taking time this year to photograph flowers from my garden as the flower mandalas they are. These are flower portraits that show the amazing details of their mandalas shapes …. When I do this my heart hurts from the intensity of beauty I see. I am reminded that at every moment this beauty is there and yet I am seldom aware of it and wonder why I am not in a perpetual state of amazement.
In My Garden – Mid April
April 18th, 2014In my garden this week. Spring has been slow in coming, but always worth the wait.
Queen of My Garden
January 29th, 2014In the winter I look at my flower photographs, not only to remember the beauty that isn’t here now, but to bath in the light of the computer and find hope for the next growing season.
Winter’s Returning Light – A Closing of the Year
December 22nd, 2013This time of quiet reflection is a balance to the busyness of the end of the year and the now gone growing season. I need to find pockets of serenity now.
Peony Love Two & Garden
June 4th, 2013The peonies have come and gone. The big storm last weekend pretty much ended their reign as stars of the garden.
Peony Love – From My Garden
May 23rd, 2013Oh to be an ant on the peonies from my garden
The Truth of Trees – Dog Walks
February 16th, 2013When I walk my sweet dog Sarah, or my son and his fiance’s sweet dog Sienna, I get to spend time really looking at trees. Today I didn’t walk my dog. Sarah is recovering from successful surgery to remove a tumor. She comes home tomorrow. So I look at the tree photos, reminding me […]
Garden Blues
January 25th, 2013Yes it is that blue time of year when I miss the blossoms and greens of plants. I once had a psychic tell me I lived in Atlantis and my job was to help in the creation of new flowers that would bring healing with their beauty.
Mostly Mandalas
January 10th, 2013Looking over the photos I took last year, these are a few of my favorites, by Linda Wiggen Kraft
