I’ve started rising early again. I’ve been an Early-to-bed /rise person most of my life. In recent months I found myself sleeping longer, sometimes over nine hours. It rendered me groggy for the first hours and I knew those hours were not productive sleep. For the past few days I am up at five. I […]
Tag: plants
Heavenly
The scent of this morning’s Fresh plucked Magnolia blossom Fills the room tonight. One of my favorites… One I cannot explain to my own satisfaction, Much less to another. Tonight, I am reminded of the first time I smelled Magnolia and how the adrenaline swelled through my body while Angels infused the air. Spring. Charleston. […]
When the night comes
Twilight trickles, seeps into the varnishing death of this young Spring day Orange blossoms linger. I capture her scent as she . perfumes the night. Bid Winter a weary farewell. ©Nancilynn Saylor 18 March 2018
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Silent snowflakes driftdown, blanketing the Sycamore Christmas lights shimmer. © Nancilynn Saylor 7 December 2017
“Flowers in her hair, flowers everywhere”
"Your hair is like mums,"Words murmured fifty years pastToday, mums remind. ©Nancilynn Saylor15 October 2017
Autumn serenade
Milkweeds burst in bloom/ Await Monarchs migration/ Long for Autumn's chill © Nancilynn Saylor14 October 2017
October road
I love native grasses/Kissed by fleeting Autumn breeze/Swaying in sunrise! © Nancilynn Saylor 13 October 2017Photo courtesy of Susan W AlbertTexas native grass Lindheimer's muhly
Try to remember the kind of September
Our Oxblood lilies Reliable sign of FallTough as September © Nancilynn Saylor 18 September 2017
Here in my Deep Purple dreams
August overtakes us, grasses brown- withering Purple shines on fence ©Nancilynn Saylor 20 August 2017
Mellow yellow
Sunshine-yellow bellsColor of deep, deep SummerDay dreams of autumn. Nancilynn Saylor 18 August 2017