Apr 15, 2013

le petites choses {the little things} vol. i

every tear is answered with a blossom; every sigh with songs and laughter blent. april blooms upon the breezes toss them. april knows her own and is content. -susan collidge
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 photo AprilOranges-14.jpg>> relishing the taste of spring sunshine in the form of vibrant citrus. 
>> yellow poppies peeping up to say hullo. 
>> new LR presets {seriously, people, I'm smitten with these polaroid/vintagy presets}. 
>> this pretty lady's post {her blog is solid eye-candy + warm nostalgic soul food}.
>> cello music {it vigorously stimulates the creative juices}. 
>> sweet potato crisps + carrot juice = happy tummy. 
>> april walks on breezy afternoons. 
>> prepping my garden for springtide planting. 
>> cuppa + bubble bath {seriously, though if you have never sipped a cuppa tea in a steamy/warm/dreamy/bubbly bath, YOU HAVE NOT LIVED!}. 
>> sifting through the rudiments of my summer wardrobe.
>> clean damp braids.   
>> ponder // listen // cry // heart melting/squealing           
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x | the girl in her garden

Apr 13, 2013

Poetry to a starving artist.

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| yours truly failing at an attempt of  being a fashion model *smiles* + sneak peek of a spring photoshoot *wink, wink* | 

 the wind combed restlessly through the wispy evergreens
 that particular april afternoon. 

 the unobservant would have never noticed

 while the cynic would have scowled 

 but sat i there and observed the 

 tint of sadness in her raspy song. 

 desperately she clawed; all the more dismal she became 

 while sat i there and wondered 

 how much it said of me

 to see the a breeze be lonely

                                 searching. 
                                 
                                          searching. 
                                           
                                                never ceasing to search. 
 or if it were all the same. 
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I have discovered for myself this past year, like most bloggers will at one time or another, that blogging has a particular talent in being rather difficult. it should be quite easy, but sometimes it just plain isn't. perhaps, 'tis because I want it to be easy. all I really want are heart-stopping words and a few breath-taking photographs to be as easily produced as making toast [which, by the way, don't underestimate making toast as it can be proven to be a rather difficult morning task. i mean, you have to stick bread into this machine that will literally swallow it up and burn it to a crisp and then refuse to return it. and then you electrocute yourself by sticking a metal object to fish out the thoroughly burnt piece of bread that really isn't worth it in the end. and THEN - ok, bad analogy. let's move on.]  in order to gain thirty comments and twenty million followers. sometimes you wonder if that's too much to ask. 

but let's face it. good things are not proven to be easy. like making that perfect piece of cinnamon toast [with that beautiful golden brown bread sopping up that warm ivory butter with that perfectly thin sprinkle of cinnamon and crystals of sugar - why is it so difficult to make a perfect piece of toast? *ahem*]

but the real question is: is it rewarding? 
oh, yes. a hundred times yes.

and thanks to the wind, there's always poetry within the reach of one's fingertips, always encouraging one onward to capture her complexity with words.

off to make a perfect piece of toast now. 
xx 

The Girl in her Garden

good news: my tripod works grand! 
word of advice: never ever EVER try to film a vlog in the middle of the street {even if the background is irresistibly lovely} else your whole entire neighborhood [who half the time seems frightened out of their wits to step outside] will want to be filmed. 

out of memory and time.

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there is a hard place to describe
there is pushed into the depth of my heart into the far corner of my memory  
but as the first notes falling gingerly upon my ear
the gateway swings open
and  instantly I am transported
there
a memory caught within time's net
never to be set free
never to be forgotten
always to be cherished and twice poured o'er
out of the music
out of memory and time
I am there. 
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Hope fades Into the world of night Through shadows falling Out of memory and time Don't say: We have come now to the end White shores are calling You and I will meet again And you'll be here in my arms Just sleeping And all will turn To silver glass A light on the water Grey ships pass Into the West
I had not been aware how deeply it would move me. it was the first night I had ever heard that trill of beauty. and my heartstrings quivered as it imprinted itself upon my mind, filling the depths of my soul with honey-sweet warmth, sewing the summer evening into my skin...into my memory. suppose, it was not so much the words or the melody but the nostalgia knitted into each crescendo and gentle dwindling of notes - all the summer memories of catching shooting stars with our eyes, drinking intoxicating laughter, singing around the piano forte, and loving the rejuvenating sensation of being fully alive. the memory of my eyes splitting at the westward horizon and being there.
summer can't come soon enough.

what song throws you into the depths of nostalgia?

  je te'aime

The Girl in the Garden 

postscript :: 'tis good to return to my garden. 
p.s.s. I built a spanish cottage where tea and biscuits are waiting. ;)