Ditch the ads, upload images and much more - upgrade today from 5.95/month!
Read • Contests • Groups • Learn • Forums • Store • Help
 

Energy

Missing image
Sunlight
rain, gentle
or torrential

Seedlings
hardy annuals
or fresh perennial

Nature
fostering life
with ingredients essential

Nurturing
daily love and attention
from caretaker seeing potential

Energy
bequeathed and received
nature to gardener, quintessential

Healing
in aromatic lavender
masterful oregano, power evidential

Calming
chamomile flowers, edible nasturtium
lemon balm and mint nearing existential

Enhancing
spikes of memory rosemary, stevia
air of citronella with multi-potential

Stimulating
spicy basil, cilantro and fennel,
hot red and banana peppers consequential

Invigorating
anticipating red early girl tomatoes
cascades of cherry and Romas, providential


Moralizing the story of Energy
what we give, we bountifully receive
nature's energy, our hearts and souls, influential.


Words come alive when answered in kind.

    : , Your review:

    Comment Suggestion: What is your your first impression?
    : no Cost: 0 free left 0 points, You have (?)

Comments

1 - 28 of 28

  • MargaretG silver member
    August 29

    Edit | Reply
    I like the rhymes on "torrential" carried through all the verses, and the photos complement the words beautifully. You have a small space, but your garden is wonderful. I love pansies of all colours and their wilder cousins the violas.
    There are a few spelling issues, try a check.
    The philosophy is great, as energy circulates in the world through nature's bounty and our own re-gifting. I enjoyed your page!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 29
      Edit | Reply
      Margaret, OMG, there they sat, and I never caught them.
      Spelling never my problem. but typos and blurry eyes,
      especially, have been been bugging me. Hah, spell check
      didn't like sweet stevia. Thank you for noting the miscues. I appreciate it, hating it when I leave a mistake behind!

      And, indeed, I was more concerned with getting in all the photos in all the right places, than carefully looking at all the letters in place!!!

      So nice of you to visit. The pansies have given away in the last weeks of extreme heat. but the season's crowd each other with a couple very, very cool nights recently.
      And that a boon for the tomatoes, updated in "Garden Art"
      for they and the basil like the cool, while extreme heat and sun yellows their leaves!

      But the energy still lives, especially in the aroma when
      watering the herbs---the basil and mints, in particular.

      Thank you, Margaret,

      M-C

  • Nature Song silver member
    July 7

    Edit | Reply
    Engery, the essential ingredient to all life sustaining with rain! Wonderful penning, and love the pics, are those yours? ~Sie


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 7
      Edit | Reply
      Thank you, Sie.

      Yes, my patio, my lving work of art for the Summer!!
      Just as big an accomplishment for me, got the pix
      downloaded from cell phone to online!!! Silly software!

      Aesthete

  • MariGoes gold member
    July 7

    Edit | Reply
    I think I could use your garden for a day or two, to recharge my energy. I can almost smell the fresh scents...lavender and oregano. And the photos, they make me feel like going there and have a tea with you.
    So very lovely Miss Colours, all of it!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 7
      Edit | Reply
      Mari---it has its benefits, my quiet corner.

      Wish you lived down the street...

      N-C

  • summer51
    July 6
    Edit | Reply
    It's like a "Heaven's Garden" for me, dear Mumsy.
    Your garden is nice to look at ...beautiful and simple.

    I have so many herbal plants at the backyard, too way back...I mean many years ago. And many fruit trees and vegetable garden. My late hubby's hobby...lol.

    Say "hello" to Jake for me. He was "curious" in the pic here.... looking at your garden or "guarding it?


    Summer51


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 6
      Edit | Reply


      Look closely, Jake just inside the door...

      • summer51
        July 7

        Edit | Reply
        Hello, Mumsy...just looking at Jake inside ...

        "Hello, Jake!" :-P


        Summer51

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 6
      Edit | Reply
      Summer, so good to see you!!

      The manageable way to have a "garden"---and big enough
      for me!

      Jake like it here, a home away from home for him!

      Mumsy

  • bozoloper
    July 6

    Edit | Reply
    you narrate life in a way that makes film seem obsolete. i don't think i have more to say. i'm jealous of your garden!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 6
      Edit | Reply
      Wow----may writers never become obsolete!!!

      But, Loper, your peppers must be bigger
      than mine, for mine just started!!!


      I just went out and looked again---now a good
      three inches from mere tiny babies yesterday!

  • arafura
    July 5
    Edit | Reply
    Wow... lovely garden! Jake seems to enjoy it too...


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 5
      Edit | Reply
      Thank you, Arafura.

      They trust Jake to go unleashed on
      my patio, for he is such a family guy
      who wouldn't leave their sight!!

      Aesthete

  • xoPJ
    July 4
    Edit | Reply
    yow - how big is your porch?? this garden in amazing and yummy too.
    i have too many trees to plant a veggie row, but i might have to think about this container idea.

    i don't have much color in the yard either (how'd that happen. oh yeah, i didn't plant any...) i do have a lot of greenery though, fairly draught proof (haven't had to water anything yet).

    i have been lazier than keystone the past couple of summers, and now have to spend all my time pulling weeds and trimming limbs.

    mantra for holiday weekend: must plant tomatoes and flowers
    must plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowersmust plant tomatoes and flowers.....


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 5
      Edit | Reply
      The patio, not that big, as you can see in relation
      to Jake, taking a stroll.



      Color, easy to pop into a container...


      PJ, it's in your blood---go plant!



      Jake posing for a size guide, again.

      • Keystone Theater
        July 5
        Edit | Reply
        It's a nice, neat patio. Mine would have a dented trash can, assorted plastic bottles which weeks before had contained miracle grow, and a broken lawn chair that I'd be too lazy to remove.

      • xoPJ
        July 5

        Edit | Reply
        yes boss, i'm right on it. as soon as i finish 8 bazillion other things on my urgent to do list. no, wait a minute, thought it over. colorful plants are more urgent. i'm on it, boss ~

        (love the poem, the yard, the pooch)

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          July 6
          Edit | Reply
          The aesthetics, the visual---important component
          of being happy with life. A splash of nature's color,
          the best prescription!

          Way to go, PJ!

          Aeathete

  • Keystone Theater
    July 4
    Edit | Reply
    I see you have the wire trellis on the tomatoes...wow, they're big already, the plants I mean. What is the thing with the red blossoms, in the white pot?

    Now you really make me mad at myself for not planting a half dozen or so beef steak tomatoes.

    Yeah, I'm sure there is some great mathematical equation that would show exactly how the ratio between the energy put in, and returned, someone who is a bigger egghead than I am would have thought of it I'n sure.

    Your poem sounds so alluring I almost want to make myself an herb sandwich...better add some turkey too though,

    Beautiful plants...your new author name for the day...GreenThumb2000


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 5
      Edit | Reply
      Why, Keystone, thank you for the new name.
      It only applies to plants grown in containers,
      as my few attempts in the ground years ago
      were not as productive.

      Big tomato plants---my secret, call ahead and have
      my favorite greenhouse save me three. Brought them
      home on Mother's Day, already 18-24" tall. Had to nurse them in the garage for two weeks
      till the frost nights had subsided.

      The biggest one to the left is an Early Girl. True to
      her name, she hides 20 medium sized green tomatoes in
      her leaves.

      The two earthboxes, seen at far left
      have ten Sweet 100s. plants. These were small
      when brought home and were kept in the garage
      until the second week in June.

      Finally tall and bushy with buds!!! Pictures
      taken by cell phone camera and digital camera
      two weeks ago, so lots bigger now.

      Here's a ready made salad of leaf lettuce
      varieties for your turkey sandwich...


      The red plants in the white pot, salvia, placed there
      to remind the green bushy tomato plants they are supposed
      to produce bright red globes!


      Intuition, better than math to calculate energy.
      However, E=MC2 could be loosely translated to imply
      I equal energy, which I hope is true.

      M-C

      • Keystone Theater
        July 5

        Edit | Reply
        E=MC2, I like that! You'll read that one again...been looking for the right nickname.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          July 6
          Edit | Reply
          I thought that might catch your eye.
          Einstein and I, born in the same month,
          two days and multi years apart!

          M-C

  • Olivia33
    July 4
    Edit | Reply
    I have thoroughly enjoyed this tour of your garden.
    Thank you so much for sharing this.


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 4
      Edit | Reply
      Hi, Olivia, glad you stopped by.

      Of course, my tour does not feature the exotic birds
      you so often describe. Flocks of sparrows whosh up
      and over the fence when I open the door, disturbing them
      from nibbling at the bird seed set out for them.

      Aesthete

  • vanessa reen gold member
    July 4

    Edit | Reply
    This is such a lovely write. Your words and pictures go together so beautifully. The imagery was wonderful and this was such a pleasure to read. Thank you for sharing.


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      July 4
      Edit | Reply
      Thank you, Vanessa. I just hit the last buttons
      to insert the pix, my first from the cell phone,
      finally released successfully to the computer
      and Photobucket! The concept had been lurking
      in my mind, wanting to appear on the page!!!!

      Aesthete
1 - 28 of 28