Camellias.
Until I moved to North Carolina, I'd never really known much about them.
Now they are my favorite fall bloom. And winter bloom. And early spring bloom.
These gorgeous puffy flowers started blooming two weeks ago - Snowstorm, I believe is the name of the cultivar - with double white frothy flowers sprinkled in between the rich glossy green leaves. Ah.... it makes me want to to look at them again just for a moment.
Yes, they are as beautiful as in my mind's eye.
Not that spring and summer flowers aren't beautiful. It's just so unexpected to find something thriving, bursting into life, when everything else had faded. Even the brilliant leaves have passed their prime. The branches are more bare than adorned today. Perhaps that's why I don't love fall the way some people do. I crave the potential of new seedlings and raw earth.
So, today, I will drink in the sassy I-dare-you-to-freeze-my-blossoms camellias. Knowing that we all bloom in our own right and perfect time.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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Hi Linda, I'm an ADDer too! Your Garden Spirit Retreat sounds wonderful! I wish I were not so far away (CA) I will keep reading in hopes that fate will find me closer some day :) Thanks for your last post, I know you wrote it awhile ago, but it was very encouraging!
You have an award over at my blog, come claim it! By the way, I think the ladies over at SITS would love you to be a part of their blogosphere... You should check it out (there is a button on my blog, since html won't work in the comment box)... You will pick up some readers who could really use what you have to say (on your ADDiva blog too)...
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