Vanishing Beauty

My trees of Prunus domestica ’Sinikka’ bloomed this spring like never before. 

I got them at a plant exchange happening years ago. My trees are thin due to poor soil 

and they are very high, not an easy task to photograph... Morning sun gives a bit yellowish tone, 

but the blooms were pure white and they were a pretty sight against the clear blue sky.

❤︎ 

But all this beauty lasted only for a few days due to hot & sunny weather.

Theres a poem in every flower, 

a sonnet in every tree, 

a tale in every lifetime

its just for you to see...

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just listen for the music

that your ears cannot hear, 

just strain yourself for the melody

thats so far and yet so near 

- Arti Chopra

Spare a still moment

Every once in a while.

Take in the beauty around.

Take it in with a smile.

- A. T. Alabi

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold. 

Her early leaf's a flower; 

But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 

So Eden sank to grief, 

So dawn goes down to day. 

Nothing gold can stay. 

- Robert Frost

PARADISE
When I met you it was the most beautiful evening
The birds sang and the moon in the sky was glistening
You said let's go to the country, to our countryside
I was thinking, now this thing will work out

When we got there the flowers were blooming, smelling
The sea foamed like beer foams
Instantly went to the beach, took off our excess clothes
The atmosphere was so intoxicating

Oh if I could give you the most beautiful
This huge world of mine
But I won't do that
A brief moment should be enough
When I get to be by your side like this

We wrapped our bodies together, sand stuck to our toes
When we sunk into the intense rhythm of the sea
I guess you joked a bit, straight from mouth to mouth
This is what the grown-ups whisper about
❤︎ 

This is an iconing song from 1974 by the Finnish Rauli Badding Somerjoki (1947-1984)
He was not a handsome man, was very shy - but oh so talented!

And of course the whole Finland is excited about

our World Championship in Icehockey! Congratulations!

// WILLY-NILLY 

// FRÜHLINGSGLÜCK
// MOSAIC MONDAY
// IMAGE-IN-ING