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#AutumnShowers “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops” -Langston Hughes Umbrellas appeared today like mushrooms pop up on the forest floor after the rain #BloomScrolling #Nature

“The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.”- Emerson A childhood mesmerized by the diverse shapes and colors of autumn leaves on trees arching overhead, shuffling through fallen carpets of gold and red on the sidewalk below 🍁 🍂 #BloomScrolling #Nature

Up that staircase the moon has built Her light through trees and rocks All memories bathing in poetry Let's go out and feel the night On this Harvest Moon #BloomScrolling #HarvestMoon #Nature

opening the book surprised to find my old story there with a new ending scent of old leave - what is dead brings such beautiful memories of youth -RWT #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

"Space is the Twin Sister of Time. If we have open space then we have open time to breathe, to dream, to dare, to play, to pray to move freely, so freely, in a world our minds have forgotten but our bodies remember" -Terry Tempest Williams #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

everything is falling leaves, water, the nation even the crows are silent

"At no other time, than autumn, does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; bitter where it borders on taste, and more honey-sweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, and darkness."- Rilke #BloomScrolling #Nature #Autumn

"October had tremendous possibility.The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles." - Sarah Guillory #BloomScrolling #Nature #Gingko #LabyrinthPath #October

Couple of images from our sunset after a storm blew through the SE Oregon Desert Monday nite.

Monday nite we had a storm close in on us in the desert. The winds went from about 5mph to about 45mph in about 20 minutes. Then we had the most amazing sunset, images coming later. #oregondesert #timelapse

October brings back showers Colorful leaves tugged by each breeze Will they hold on one more day #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalShift #Reflections

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall." ~ Oscar Wilde. Cemetery Path #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." ~ George Eliot #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

The end of September’s Swan Song bringing longer dark nights offers the hopeful reminder … "Now is the time to listen within, tend our inner garden mindfully until new flowers, new blessings can blossom." - Hermann Hesse #BloomScrolling #Nature #SeasonalCycles

David Whyte - The Sun “... I look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky and wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering." Trictyrtis Hirta #BloomScrolling #PoeticNature #SeasonalCycles

like a lover so long missed... I give in to autumn's shivering touch daylight and nighttime in a slow dance tomorrow one will lead… #BloomScrolling #Equinox #SeasonalCycles #Nature

"Wake! The sky is light! Lead us to the road again." ~ Basho. #BloomScrolling #NatureCalls

September will be closing the gate to summer adventures this weekend as Autumn Equinox arrives Monday #BlloomScrollng #SayonaraSummer #SeasonalCycles

A Two Horse Day or A Three Dog Night ? Two often our summer begins and ends with wildfire haze tinted skies. #BloomScrolling #ClimateChange

“Today, my hope is vertical. Tomorrow it will be horizontal. The next day, cloudy. My hope is like a Greek myth: exchanging skin for bark, bark for scales, scales for the hollow bones of a bird. In these ways my hope attempts to escape its fate.” - Jane Hirshfield

“Study nature, love nature, Stay close to nature, it will never fail you.” - Frank Loyd Wright #BloomScrollng #Nature

"When you understand that every forest is having a conversation, every garden is singing beneath the soil, and every puddle contains a universe, you're remembering what concrete made you forget." Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot #BloomScrolling #Nature

"The Earth Laughs in Flowers" - Emerson “For myself, I was just passing by when the wind flared and the blossoms rustled and their glittering pandemonium leaned on me” - Mary Oliver #BloomScrolling #Nature

The Solace of Open Spaces - Gretal Erlich “The lessons of impermanence taught me … There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration... Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are." #BloomScrolling #Nature #BeHereNow

"It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world."- Mary Oliver Late Summer Landscape #BloomScrolling #ConnectToNature

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"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." - John Lubbock September suddenly seized the end of summer.. #BloomScrolling #Nature

"Stay young, always, in the theater of your mind." ~ Mary Oliver #BloomScrolling #ShySunflower

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Who else remembers playing ‘King of the Hill’ summertime as a child, outside in someone’s yard or city park, laughing each time a new challenger sent you tumbling back down, running back up the grassy slope #KingBee #BloomScrolling

“There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration... Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” -GRETEL EHRLICH #BloomScrolling #Nature

“Enough of us see that we have a world to remake •We want to meet what is hard and hurting• We want to rise to what is beautiful and life giving• We want to do that where we live, and we want to do it walking alongside others” •Krista Tippett #BoomScrolling #Poetry

"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present.... Gratefully. " -Maya Angelo #BloomScrolling #Poetry

Mary Oliver “ My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.” #BloomScrolling #Poetry

my elders slowly becoming my ancestors red leaves in the wind -Valerie Rosenfeld #BloomScrolling #SeasonalCyclesPass

“Where you are going and the place you stay come to the same thing. What you long for and what you've left behind are as useless as your name. Just one time, walk out into the field and look at that towering oak,an acorn still beating at its heart. “ - Peter Levitt #BloomScrolling #NatureSpeaks

Hot August Days are Quickly Slip Sliding towards September #BloomScrolling #GardenPals

Trump’s rule isn’t chaos—it’s architecture. Elections tilted, agencies captured, militias emboldened, markets destabilized. Each feeds the other until crisis itself becomes the scaffolding of power. #Trump #Authoritarianism #Democracy #USPolitics

Sail Away Sail Away Sail Away -Enya After summer’s abundance of Milkweed plants have bloomed and set pods the seeds each sail away on silky parachutes #BloomSrolling #Milkweed

Circumnavigating #Sunflower #BloomScrolling

“What is happiness, anyhow? … so impalpable, a mere breath, an evanescent tinge. [..] A feeling where the boundaries of realness become weightless, distinct and unbearing, if only for a moment.” - Walt Whitman #BloomScrolling

Being in balance together, is not a fixed state, not a battle over differences, nor bending to each other, but a slender cord of grace between you, tough, and elastic, that leaves you steady and free - M. Popova Allium & Salvia Yangii #BloomScrolling

“To find the universal elements enough, the air and the water exhilarating, refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter, thrilled by the stars at night, elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” -John Burroughs #BloomScrolling

The distant mountains Are reflected in the eye Of the dragonfly --Kobayashi Issa 1763-1828 #BloomScrolling #DragonflyCarapace

Yin/Yang Garden Companions Silent - Preying Mantis Noisy - Cicada #BloomScrolling

Great Expectations Sun Sun Sun[flower] Here it Comes… #BloomScrolling

Gladiolus: Latin for Little Sword Connected to Gladiators: symbolic of strength, integrity. The flower associated with the month of August Daylight Shrinking Cross Quarters, the midpoint of summer, officially occurs on August 7, 2025, halfway between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox #BloomScrolling

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Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)