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Central, FL, United States
I am a former teacher, aspiring artist, inveterate traveler This blog is about my Florida garden experience and its expression though poetry, philosophy, photography and art. It includes my other creative endeavors. Here can be found posts about travel to other gardens around the world. My garden is a half acre in zone 9a which includes a large water garden. I have mostly a shade garden because of the huge live oak. To keep things easy, I love to grow bromiliads,ferns,gingers and other tropicals. I need to have a low maintenance garden. In the summer we usually have plenty of rain and it transforms into a jungle. I have converted my swamp into the water garden where I grow irises, waterlilies, papyrus, radigan, spikebush and swamp lily. I also grow citrus (lemon,key lime,grapefruit,tangerines,pineapple,and loquats). Me?...Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid)

Apr 22, 2012

a love nest



I came across this nest in my yard down by the swamp...it reminded me that a friend once said ..."don't put all your eggs  in one nest" 

 




This  poem came to me by a thread ...It touched me and I wonder about the author who is from Ethiopia...

  

 A Bird's Nest

My life is like an empty nest,
Of a bird who lost her nest.
Sometimes, I get the right road to the right life,
But mostly I get the wrong road of life.
My life is like a chick,
Who gets fed by her mom,
People teach me nothing that will help me in life.
My life is like a bird's nest,
That holds a lot of chicks,
There are lots of people in my heart,
But I don't know who my friend is.
My life is full of hurt,
Like a bird that gets chased by a snack.
So, birds, please don't come to the nest,
If you only need me for you advantage.
I am a lonely nest with no bird in it.

Rediet Teshome

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Another Carolina Wren but this mother has 5 eggs!!

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