I love how the morning sun presents herself in dappled light in our backyard.
It's a source of constant pleasure for me.
Pied Beauty
by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh fire-coal chestnut falls; finches wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
I wish you many blessings this week.
13 comments:
Blessings to you too, Marlis. Love this. xo,
Beautiful photo's, true sentiment and beautiful person! Thanks for sharing this, Marlis.
Thank you for sharing these very lovely and sentimental post...you're a wonderful and special lady, dear Marlis. Many blessings to you and your family too. Thank you for your generous comment on my girls! Love. FABBY
What a wonderful post, each dappled photo is gorgeous. My favorite has to be the watering can with the fern, just lovely.
Have a great, great week!
Jacqueline
Good morning from Frog Hollow Farm and thank you for stopping by my blog post about my visit to Panicale in Italy. It was truly a wonderful day. I loved reading your poem in this post - very tranquil and inspiring! Ciao, bella! xxoo
hi Marlis, what a beautiful post. The lovely photographs and equally beautiful words to share your dappled light. Truly Blessings from your backyard. May your week be a blessed one too.
~Emily
The French Hutch
Beautiful poem, and very nice photo presentation!
Katherine
Not only do I love your photos, I love the words - dappled light! Don't you just want to say it over and over? Those words bring such a beautiful vision to mind don't they?
Dianne
I so love the dappled light too~ what a joy to capture it in your photos!
This posts scores all the way around for me. Love the pictures, and I love the companion poetry.
Peace and beauty. What a lovely post.
p.s. for some reason I was not yet following, I have fixed that now.
Hi Marlis,
Dappled sunlight photos -- a great way to start the week. These are lovely. Thanks for visiting my blog and taking time to leave a comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the rose photos; they are some of my very favorite of all our pictures. I wish our rosebush bloomed more often, but I opted for quality over quantity in this case. I just adore the blooms (like old-fashioned cabbage roses) and the fragrance. Have a good week.
Hugs,
Denise at Forest Manor
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