Birthday Butterflies
Dandelion Life
Finding My Happy
Sunshine Dragon
I absolutely love this shot I got today! The sun was coming and going as clouds kept blocking it out and I was wandering around the village pond looking out for wildlife. I came upon this dragonfly in the tall grass and as I was kneeling to get a low-down shot, the sun came out and turned it into a magical scene full of bokeh and sparkle 🙂
❤
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Symbols of my Life
I was considering the Weekly Photo Challenge of ‘Symbol’ and wondering how this could be applied in my macro world. I could have taken photos of my engagement ring, but that’s not very original, so in the end I decided to think about important moments in my life and photos that symbolise them.
This was just over 3 years ago, when I’d just about gotten over a really difficult couple of years and was trying to feel more positivity about the future. I took this photo of myself with a remote shutter, with the camera on the tripod. I was trying to capture myself twirling, letting go of the past and its heartbreak, and feeling the joy (it was my birthday). It symbolises the end of one era and the start of a new & better one.
This one is me with my camera a few weeks later. I was in Bournemouth with my sister and my children and you can see that the positivity was working, I was beginning to find myself again and enjoy life. And of course I was really getting into photography. I’d had the camera for about 3 months at this point – my first proper DSLR – and I was finding my niche. (Thanks to my sister for this photo)
And then a wonderful thing happened… through blogging I met a lovely man 🙂
Here’s Bruce and I out for a walk during our first weekend together. This is symbolic, as I’m sure you can imagine, of the beginning of our relationship, when we met in person for the first time after getting to know eachother online.
And here we are nearly a year later – happy and together, engaged and sharing a home. This one symbolises the real, solid, happy partnership that developed from the virtual, online beginning.
And just to finish off … this one is now – just a few minutes ago 🙂 I dragged poor Bruce outside to take a selfie with me so that I could add it to this post.
This one symbolises the future.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Symbol.”
Found a Dragon!
swollen
my heart is swelled
fat full and brimming
a surfeit cornucopia
each beat a pulse of love
for you, for all of you
my family, my people
my precious, precious ones
and to my heart
I hold you tight
and tender
babble
drugged-up
loved-up
babbling brook
happy spilling
Happy Kitten
This kitten at my daughter’s riding school really wanted a cuddle this morning, and once she had her way, she was very happy about it 🙂 Very cute.
Welcome to any readers who’ve joined us from my other blog which is going to be closing down – this will now be the location for Nature Diary blog posts as well as the usual posts you would normally find here. Thanks very much if you voted or commented on my poll – it was very helpful 🙂
kiss-shaped
sometimes
you make me smile
so much
that I can’t
make my lips
kiss-shaped
and I stumble
nose-bumping
press my
too-wide mouth
to yours
light
if the end seems far out of sight
angle your face towards the light
the shadows it will chase away
and brighten up the darkest day
though your pain can be hard to bear
you will surely find comfort there
and if your heart is sore and sad
know that this light will make you glad
but each new day brings wind and rain
it seems the sun won’t shine again
where is it that I’ll find this light?
the chance of sunny spells is slight
the light is in your children’s eyes
it glows there in your partner’s guise
it shines out in your cat’s loud purr
it softly lies in pet’s soft fur
so see the light and let it in
remember there is joy within
there is much more to life than pain
and you have everything to gain
so stop and feel the light of love
this light’s not just from sky above
let all your darkness melt away
now in love’s arms you gently lay
This is an attempt at a Cyhydedd Fer, which is a form of Welsh poetry. To be honest I’m not entirely sure about rhyming … I wonder if it makes a poem seem less real, and more like a Nursery Rhyme, but I like the traditions and sometimes like to give them a go. I hope you feel the positive message of this poem, whether or not you enjoy a rhyme!
to you
in this life that I live
with its ups and its downs
with its tears and its frowns
when I’m often in pain
and feeling so weary
so tired and dreary
in this wild head of mine
where the worries swirl round
anxieties abound
where golden honey’d glow
can swiftly change its hue
to deepest darkest blue
in this life that I live …
there’s YOU
and no matter what
brings me down
you always
lift me UP
’til I’m flying
above all the clouds
and I’m happy inside
where it matters the most
I can’t tell you
enough
how you changed me
for good
and how precious
you are
how I love you
so much
so much more than too
x
