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    First Blooms of Spring

    I love redbuds. They are the first trees to bloom in my area, so they’re this beautiful pop of color in the dying days of winter.  I also love them because they are very easy to identify, and as a wannabe naturalist, my identification skills are not very good. Actually, they’re miserable. After “oaks have […]

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    Beauty in My Own Front Yard

    Beauty in My Own Front Yard

    I am an ever-hopeful, ever-failing gardener. In fact, I don’t so much garden as fight a losing battle with nature. Despite my perennial failure, one plant I have been successful at growing is rosemary. Tiny victories! The name rosemary comes from the Latin rosmarinus through the French rosemarine, meaning dew of the sea, probably because it’s native to coastal […]

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    Searching For and Sharing Beauty

    Searching For and Sharing Beauty

    Like many people, I stumble upon a lot fun, touching, or interesting things online, which I often share for other people to enjoy. (I also stumble across a lot of outrage, but I’m trying to get away from sharing most of that. It seems the world is mad enough without my encouragement.) But I’ve noticed […]

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    Surrounded by beauty

    Surrounded by beauty

    As I drove home from church, past wildflowers and longhorns and strip malls, I found myself singing this hymn. I love being able to get into nature, away from concrete and congestion, but that’s a special treat that happens only a few times throughout the year. I live in an urban area, in the close-in […]

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    Beauty inside

    Beauty inside

    Wacoal is a Japanese based lingerie company. Their Thai division has produced a series of short films called, “My Beautiful Woman.”  There is no lingerie, no skin, no sensuous situations, just stories of three remarkable women told from the point of view of men in their lives. Interestingly, only one of those men is a […]

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