Update about blogCa

Who knew all this would happen afterwards! Flat Creek in November, 2024. Much changed by the force of the hurricane floods in Sept. 2024. The deck of the bridge is now under that pile of debris.

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Into the woods by car


 Since I couldn't walk in Montreat, I drove up one of the pretty dead-end roads.



Added to Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for April.


Quote to consider:

When Death Comes
By Mary Oliver
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence

and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom; taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder 
if I have made of my life something particular, and real. 
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, 
or full of argument. 
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world."

6 comments:

  1. ...a safe way to enjoy the sights.

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  2. I think this is the poem that we heard at a funeral quite some time ago and introduced us to Mary Oliver.

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  3. Hello, pretty and colorful trees, they are beautiful in the spring time. Married to amazement, I like that sentence. Take care, have a happy day!

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  4. Beautiful colourful trees. I like the poem especially the last line, "I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world."

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  5. Beautiful trees. And I really love that poem. There is a poem swap going around our neighborhood and we are having a good time. Thanks for yours.

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  6. That must be some walk to remember between those trees filled with flowers.

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