Popinjay: Joyful
Heather Goodman, a blogging friend for nearly four years, is hosting a meme this week and next called Popinjay. She says:
My son-in-law gave me a beautiful Lupine quite a few years ago. He may not even remember. I do. I loved it. Something happened to it this winter. Perhaps it died of old age. Maybe the winter was just more than it could handle. The roots could have even been destroyed by a bug or disease. For whatever reason, when spring arrived - it did not. I was heartbroken.
This morning I was doing some weeding and cleaning in the flower beds when I discovered something growing under the edge of a large bush: TWO BABY LUPINE.
I gently dug them out and transplanted them in a spot where the sun will invite them out to play.
Yes. Finding these brought me joy. Can you see those scraggly little tendrils out here in front?
What makes you joyful today?
- pop⋅in⋅jay--noun--a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter. In other words, blogging. Isn't that what this personal blogging is all about? Me. Me. Me. For this photo challenge, that's perfect. We're going to dig inside of ourselves and do some concept photography. I'm going to give you a word and you're going to take a photo of something that describes the concept of the word.
- joy·ful
[joi-fuhl]
–adjective
1. full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
2. showing or expressing joy, as looks, actions, or speech.
3. causing or bringing joy, as an event, a sight, or news; delightful: the joyful announcement of their marriage.
My son-in-law gave me a beautiful Lupine quite a few years ago. He may not even remember. I do. I loved it. Something happened to it this winter. Perhaps it died of old age. Maybe the winter was just more than it could handle. The roots could have even been destroyed by a bug or disease. For whatever reason, when spring arrived - it did not. I was heartbroken.
This morning I was doing some weeding and cleaning in the flower beds when I discovered something growing under the edge of a large bush: TWO BABY LUPINE.
I gently dug them out and transplanted them in a spot where the sun will invite them out to play.
What makes you joyful today?
Comments
xoxo,
Connie
however
I must admit....plants don't do it for me (o:
Not that I don't like yours...they are great
I just had my 3 year old at Mcdonalds
that child and the rest are just a big whammy source of
JOY
for me (o:
What a sweet thing for Son to do and SO glad you still have them!
Happy night Miz Pamela!
hughugs
great post!
Pretty flowers tend to bring me joy.
We have baby oak trees we brought back from my mom's house that we are nursing. All we have around our house right now is cedar/juniper!!
Thanks for playing this week!
Reading blogs like this one - and being able to see the person "smiling" behind the words they wrote.
What's making me joyful this morning? Love. :) Florida sunshine. And today is my youngest boy's 8th birthday!
Flowers -- I love them. I can understand you very well. :)
When I was married to the tosser and we owned a plant nursery....we use to grow about 8 thousand lupins each season, but one year we arrived at the nursery early one morning to find that all 8 thousand lupin plants had grown twisted almost over night..... upon days of investigation it was found by the watercompany that there was some sorta bug in the water supply which had affected them, but by then it was to late and we had to empty 8 thousand lupin plants onto the dump heap......
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That I woke up !
(It's always interesting to see what the word verification is, and if it has any significance at all...today's WV is:
dumbani...Dumb Bunny ?