magic of life

Beauty in the blink of a moment

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Some wonders of life are visible only if you are present in the “now” of life.

This morning I was up with  the sun and started the sprinkler in the lower part of the garden. I stood there watching the water spraying over the high grass with the sun beams IMG_0868coming in from the side. When the water hits the grass I see a miraculous sight. It is like a little cloud of dust letting go from the top of the grass, flying through the air, landing on the ground.

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What on earth is this? Then I understood. The grass was ripe, ready to let go of its pollen. It just needed a little “push” from water or wind – and I happened to be there right at that moment. It was so so beautiful. I tried to catch it with my camera.

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The pollen dust, like an invisible spirit passing by …

 

 

 

Food for squirrel

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The “clonk” revealed it.

Some weeks ago I bought a squirrel food feeder (www.vivara.se). The construction is a little box with a windowlike front and a roof or lid that the animal can push up with its’ head to fetch food. I put it up in a birch tree, positioned so I will be able to see the feeder from my window.

Well, the weeks passed and nothing happened. But a friend told me it could take some time before a new feeder is found and accepted by the animal. So I waited. And one day when in the garden I heard the “clonk” sound – wood smashing against wood, the sound the feeder makes when the squirrel drops the lid of the feeder back in place. This was so exciting, finally a squirrel!

I shot a video and extracted some photos from it. Sorry about the quality, but it was shot through the window, so as not to disturb the squirrel.

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Acrobatic snail

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This morning, after having watered the flowerbed below the veranda, I noticed this acrobatic snail. Perhaps he escaped the water sprinkler by climbing up the name tag stick in the flower bed. And right on this photo he is trying to climb down again …

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The magic of life

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I meet the magic in my garden, every day, every moment. WIMG_0163hen I am present, really in the moment of everything, I see the wonders of life. This morning, on my usual early morning tour in the garden, I was startled by the beauty of the peonies. How is it even possible that a tiny, tiny bud can turn into this intricate, multipetal beauty, fifty times larger than the original bud? Those moments of meeting the magic of life are the most precious.IMG_0162