Blog : HONEYSUCKLE

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6/21/2018 4:29 pm

HONEYSUCKLE

This honeysuckle appeared climbing a tree by my house.....there is honeysuckle growing on the fence of the vegetable garden, but this one is a volunteer. It's only about 12 feet from my house and I can see it from the window above my table.......it attracts a lot of hummingbirds..........The cherry tree is laden with ripe cherries and my grandaughter and I teamed up to pick some today......We hung some over our ears too. The strawberries are also laden and ripe......Looks like it's a good year for fruit.

We then got her ready for her end-of-school camp out at the beach and then she taught me the Cup-Song. It's a rhythmic, acoustic routine you do on a table with plastic drink-cups, while you sing a song....reminds me of the clapping patterns we did when I was a , where we would stand facing each other and clap each other's hand in a rhythm while singing songs.....sort of a dance.......

My and -in-law are away doing a mountain climbing marathon. They have been training for months....they did it last year too, but a week ago my was attacked by a huge while she was jogging and has a huge bruise and injury.......She decided to do the climb anyways......Here are some photos ......the backdrop of the flower is my most recent painting effort.....I'm gilding leaves I have pressed and glued on a painted canvas........

sparkleflit 76F

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6/21/2018 4:49 pm

A little breeze is wafting that lovely fragrance right in my open windows......When I was a teen, our garage was overgrown with honeysuckle.....My dad wanted to tear that garage down and build a new one, but my mom and all us kids would set up a clamour every time he threatened to do it, so he just kept fixing it...LOL.....I knew all the fragrant blossoms in my neighbourhood and on Summer evenings I would walk around inhaling the smell of lilacs, roses, wisteria, honesuckle, evening primrose.........

Rocketship 80F

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6/21/2018 6:27 pm

Ahhhhh.............

sparkleflit 76F

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6/21/2018 7:59 pm

Rocketship

Ahhhhh.............

looklook 84M

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6/21/2018 8:46 pm

Thanks for sharing!

MrsJoe 76F

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6/22/2018 5:37 am

Your blog brought back sweet memories of the flowers my great grandmother raised. One was a huge bleeding heart plant right next to her front steps. I do not remember a fragrance, but I loved those flowers......... or maybe just the connection to her?
Thank you for a blog like this.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.

sparkleflit 76F

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6/22/2018 10:04 am

looklook

Thanks for sharing!

sparkleflit 76F

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6/22/2018 11:08 am

Wow.....Honeysuckle doesn't grow thick enough to climb on here......There is a wild Honeysuckle here that climbs trees on the edge of the forest...The flowers are less fragile and are a brilliant orange and look like flames running up the trees........it has very little fragrance though...........What it does, is turn small trees and branches into spirals. Little boys look for them......they seem to like alder trees, which are fast growing and the Honeysuckle shoots travel along the ground and latch on to the young alder and, as the tree grows, the vine spirals up the tree. Little boys consider it a treasure when they find one. They cut the tree down and remove the vine and the bark and there is a stick that looks like a snake is winding up it.........

sparkleflit 76F

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6/22/2018 11:12 am

MMM.....My mom-friends and I used to take our kids to those pick your own strawberry farms.......then we would get together to make jam......loved those days....

sparkleflit 76F

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6/22/2018 11:17 am

MrsJoe

I hope when I'm gone, flowers will remind my grand kids of me.....

sparkleflit 76F

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6/22/2018 11:40 am

MrsJoe

Your comment got me thinking......about my grandmother and flowers and I remembered the clover. We lived in a huge house across the road from the mouth of the river. The river-bank was full of wild-flowers. There were the white clover......they smelled lovely, gentle. They have long pliable stems with no leaves attached. My grandmother would make a picnic in a real basket and spread a blanket. She taught me how to find the clovers with the longest stems and to plait them into a circlet for my head.......once the sturdy plait of clover was made, it was the perfect foundation for poking other flower stems into......I felt like a princess when I wore that crown of wild flowers and holding my grandmother's hand....I was named after her and we called ourselves big and little. She lived in the same house as us......

MrsJoe 76F

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6/22/2018 3:36 pm

sparkleflit

That is a thought evoking statement...... what WILL our grandchildren remember about us?

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.

sparkleflit 76F

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6/22/2018 10:05 pm

I suppose there are several climbing plants that have similar habits. This isn't a trumpet vine, though, it is a wild honey-suckle.......Do little boys look for sticks that have been shaped by the trumpet vine? ..I know that ivy can shape young trees in the same way.......I looked up the trumpet vine and it looks gorgeous.......