Little grasshoppers of different sizes hopped away when I tried to take their portraits.They seemed grateful that I didn’t pursue them. It was early in the morning and the light was dim. I felt grateful to get a couple of photos that weren’t blurred.
sitting on lemon
balm and mint you flee swiftly
grateful grasshopper
~ Raven Ariana Simons ©2017
Bright Blessings, Namu Amida Butsu, Namaste
Our hearts give thanks for the Grace in the Universe!
~ Raven
After yesterday’s photos of canyon trees, reservoir, and cloudscapes, this morning’s captures of little friends in my yard and my neighbors’ are a contrast in size. Also we see the first opening milkweed blossoms. The above little leafhopper on milkweed is the tiniest of today’s friends. The grasshopper is tiny, too.
milkweed leafhopper
grasshopper at the neighbors’
tiny little friends
~ Raven Ariana Simons ©2017
A little shower then sunshine then overcast again brought some refreshment to milkweed and other plants and friends.
Here’s the first blossoms!
a monarch’s breakfast
and promise for new sweet meals
blossoming milkweed
~ Raven Ariana Simons ©2017
wee-est grasshopper
on purple little daisy
what are you seeing?
~ Raven Ariana Simons ©2017
The hummingbird is the largest of today’s friends and is happily partaking at the feeder. There was a downy young hummer, too, though I didn’t get a photo. I didn’t think the male helped with raising babies, yet I’ve noticed that the male hangs out by the nesting area. They nest in a little juniper and Oregon grape thicket, so I can’t actually see or observe the nest.
sipping the nectar
o hummingbird hummingbird
do you have babies?
~ Raven Ariana Simons ©2017
little leafhopper
are you refreshed by the rain?
will you be drinking?
~ Raven Ariana Simons ©2017
Namaste, Bright Late Spring Blessings, Namu Amida Butsu
Our hearts give thanks for the Grace in the Universe!
~ Raven
This is geum also known as avens. A lovely flower in my neighbors’ yard.
A dianthus and tiny baby grasshopper also live at my neighbors’ place close to the geum.
this day is waning
moving closer to midnight
I collect my thoughts
~ Raven Ariana Simons ©2017
dove and grasshopper
red red geum and dianthus
add a honeybee
~ Raven Ariana Simon ©2017
Namaste, Namu Amida Butsu, Bright Bee Blessing
Our Hearts Give Thanks for the Grace in the Universe!
~ Raven
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
~ Helen Keller
Flashback Saturday, October 13, 2012 – This is my pick photo for today and shows the setting sun shining on the Wasatch Mountains east of my home. The autumn colors really blaze in the light.
Flashback Sunday, October 13, 2013 – This is my pick and only photo for today and it stars our state bird stepping out 🙂
Monday, October 13, 2014 – Today I found one last blossom developing on my datura (aka western jimson weed) and seed pods in various stages of development. It is day 13 of the month long poetry challenge.
“an apple of thorns
pollinated by sphinx moths
and night flying bats”
~ Raven Ariana Simons
“sacred datura
extremely strong medicine
will you bring the rain?”
~ Raven Ariana Simons
“silent grasshopper
holding on datura leaf
a meditation”
~ Raven Ariana Simons
Our hearts give thanks for the Grace in the Universe!
Namaste ~ Raven
Flashback Tuesday, June 19, 2012 – This is my pick photo for June 19th and stars the bright blue damselfly that I think is a male. I love how I was able to get close enough for these shots of the damselflies and think that this damselfly is stunning!
Flashback Wednesday, June 19, 2013 – This is my pick photo for today and it stars a native bee visiting my backyard larkspur 🙂
Thursday, June 19, 2014 – Lots of pollinators in my neighbor’s coreopsis and a grasshopper, too 🙂
“My mind was once the true survey
Of all these meadows fresh and gay;
And in the greenness of the grass
Did see its hopes as in a glass.”
~ Andrew Marvell
“Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear, both what they half create
And what perceive.”
~ William Wordsworth
Our hearts give thanks for the Grace in the Universe!
Namaste and Bright Bee Blessings ~ Raven
Flashback Sunday, May 27, 2012 – Lion statue in someone’s yard.
Flashback Monday, May 27, 2013 – This is my pick photo for today and it stars a cleome. Cleome can be considered a fourth sister in the Native American three sisters (corn, beans, squash) planting guild. Bees love cleome and it is called bee plant as well as spider flower.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 – Today we have a teeny tiny grasshopper, some flowers at my neighbors, a honeybee in sweet clover in my yard, and a peak at the milkweed in my Monarch Waystation.
“‘Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!”
~William Wordsworth
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”
~Jean Giraudoux
“The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence…”
~Phillip Pulfrey
“A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place.”
~ George Washington Carver
Our hearts give thanks for the Grace in the Universe!
Bright Bee Blessings and Namaste ~ Raven
Grace and Mystery 