Daffodils

The snow put a fresh breath of life to the awakening spring. It is still February and my daffodils little trompets already lace us the yard with their bright, yellow smiles. The new buds on bushes and trees are ready to open to welcome the upcoming season. The snow filtered the air and colors are much brighter and chattier.

I wish nature could filter people's hearts as it did the air. The world would be so much brighter with a smile on everyone's face. We need to get closer to nature, like our ancestors, to regain our full potentials and live in harmony, peace, acceptance and understanding of each
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Bearded trees

The beautiful, ancient trees show their age in the winter.

Their sagging branches covered with snow bear the weight of nature.

There is silence in the sagging, white bearded branches now.

All the happy chearping and all the new life abandoned the white topped trees.

We are part of nature.



Just as the trees become abandoned so do the elderly when their hair turn white and their strength ebbs.
It is a fascinating, never ending cycle.
From seed to bud, from bud to bloom, from bloom to strong, healthy, colorful flowers which slowly fade, sag back towards the ground.
It is the justice of nature that no one live thing, no matter how beautiful or powerful will escape.

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Snowfall and Palm tree.

The big Palm tree that grows in the middle of the downstairs back patio became miraculously white. Palm is a tropical evergreen tree of the family of the palmaceae characteristically having unbranched trunk with a crown of large pinnate or palmate leaves.
In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose all their foliage for part of the year.
A leaf or frond of a palm was carried as an emblem of victory, success or joy. It was indeed a frantic joy to see the long leaves of my palm tree covered with snow. Snow in Millbrook, Elmore County, Alabama can be considered a miracle of nature.
It was so nice to swim in the enclosed, warm water swimming pool and watch the fluffy snow flakes fall all around us through the glass doors, as it covered the ground and whiten the trees and shrubs. It was like living a spectacular dream.

WHIFF OF SPRING

Such a gorgeous sunshiny day today. The courting buggy is out, the grass is green. Love is in the air. The swimming pool is repainted in beautiful light blue color. The trees and shrubs are budding. The stars are bright at night. Love your life with all your might. The moon is full, the evening lull. The ancient manor walls whisper their secrets from the hall. San Valentine loads his bow; who will his lance hit, nobody knows. His arrows will hit the world with joys and values, like the farmer's tiller softens the lumpy soil.
Thank you Lord for the things I see, the feelings I have, the bugs and the trees. You are all around us Lord with beauty, colors and scents. San Valentine will have to show us how to fall in love with nature again. Show us how lucky we are to be surrounded by nature and have a roof of stars over our heads.

Courting buggy

In garage I have a 1800 courting buggy, with original wood spoke wheels and leather seat occupies the space of a car. The Piano Box buggy became a popular buggy by the beginning of the 20th century. Also known today as the Doctor Buggy the Piano Box buggy was named that because the main body, also colled a box, resembled a piano box.

Gardener's delight.

Knock out roses bloom all year around, on the left. In front of you: the elevated organic vegetable garden produces profusely. Partial view from the large, concrete back patio facing the entrance of the enclosed swimming pool. A separate salt water heated pool building 34x58'. The large patio shaded by a tall, wide top, fruit producing palm tree is the ideal sun tanning place, after few laps in the healthy salt water pool.
Remember: Location for rehab, rehabilitation, water exercise, reab nursing home, elderly care house to find and keep suitable jobs. Restaurant! Large parking lot.

Lattice fense

An elongated lattice fence separates the pool building from the back road entrance to the house, guest house and apartment. The proprierty viewed towards the West, in Millbrook, Elmore County (AL) - The manor is built on the rise of the property. In the background you see the intersection of Monument Dr with Highway 14 (Robinson Springs Rd) where it arose a new commercial settlement. The whole area is an entrepreneurs paradise: Short Cuts, Grand Buffet, Watkins Anne F, Money Store, Hair Masters, El Jalapeno's, Winn Dixie: Pharmacy.