the world with redbuds and with war/hunger/falsehoods/and you name it

          After the Quaker Ladies photo,  I'm sharing some of my redbud photos over the years.  Can't help myself. Mid April wonders.

         While driving around my Kentucky county these last few days I have been totally aware of redbud trees in bloom everywhere!!  Oh my goodness, so beauiful, so amazing and so counter to human beings harming each other day after day.  And, it could be argued, that even by our not working hard enough to solve the ongoing impending changes in our climate, we are harming both people and the planet with our collective greed and ignorance.               

        However, I don't know if this year's redbuds bordering these narrow country roads and along the edges of our woods are what make me so happy this day. Perhaps they simply remind me of the power of beauty.  I don't want to forget that it's certain that there is harm ahead which our world has yet to experience. I ask myself, is there instead a way for the power of beauty and fairness to lead us, somehow, in turning harm into harmony???

        

redbud companions on the ground:  Quaker Ladies, or Bluets

 apple tree companions as well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of my very favorite roadside redbuds -- though this year these trees were not as lovely as in 2018.

near Winchester, closer to central Kentucky

new branches, showing the redbud way

 

         To finish off, two more photos from Kentucky -- the first one is my MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL photo, from a small airplane's point of view.  This is h a r m.

This is closer to  h a r m o n y.

 

        I'll hope to post again in two or three weeks.  Be good to each other, and love the season around you.  Ann

         

More George Ella, plus our writers group

   This is so exciting -- last night I was NOT able to post anything on my blog, but this morning, here I am! Happy again!  I've been looking forward for two weeks to posting some more George Ella photos, AND to sharing the photos I once made during a meeting of our writers group, which, until the past 4 years, met once a month for over 20 years. 

    Five of us met that day in Louisville, at Marie's home, sitting in a circle.  The light outside was wonderful, which sealed the deal.  I didn't usually take photos of us at work, but that day I could tell that I needed to break a few norms, quietly, without comment or concern.  The first photo here of George Ella is similar to the one in my last post, but now here are some other photos, which could rightly be called the "companion pieces."  

   Please forgive small errors that might appear as I wrestled with these photos off and on all this day!!!  

JAN

LEATHA

MARTHA

 

MARIE

 

Now a few more GEL photos from over the years:

not slowed down by a bad back day

In Frankfort, KY:  I'm pretty sure this is the day GE became Kentucky's Poet Laureate for two years.

Olson cousins enthralled

Christmas 2021!!  at JAN's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANN, by Molly Carew

GEL's FAMILY  - two of the seven of them

 

 

WRITER'S GROUP, photo by Jan's husband Bill  -- oh, the stories, the poems, the words!!

seen through Marie's window that March day in LOUISVILLE