Sunday Stroll - Parade

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you peace.

Sunday Stroll Invitation

"People from a planet without flowers would think
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
~ Iris Murdoch

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who's strolling today:
Margaret at Periodic Pearls
Marcia at Child in Harmony
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Me, here at the Quiet Country House

Sunday Stroll - Hopeful Birch

I wandered the quiet trails at camp this afternoon,
listening to bird song and wind rustling through the fresh leaves of mid-spring. In the birch woods, some ferns were open, while others were just unfurling...

In the open fields beyond the birch wood, there were things to see

above my head and below my feet.

Even returning home we found beautiful vistas.
These white tail deer watched us approach on the dusty lane.

while the sun settled into the lake with a splash of glowing light.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you beautiful light.


all photos by Aisling, except photos of deer taken by Limerick through the car window
May 23, 2010

Sunday Stroll Invitation

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Deb at Deborah Jean's Dandelion House
Cindy at The Whirling Dervish
Marcia at Child in Harmony
Margaret at Periodic Pearls
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Me, here at the Quiet Country House

Sunday Stroll - Blossoms and Blue Sky

Beneath the brilliant blue of the sky,
blossoms sparkle with brilliant colors of their own...

with petals of rich plum,

or lipstick pink

or a blue to rival the sky.

Shyer blossoms nod in pale crimson

or sweet lilac,

or a soft blush of purple.

Where ever you are, what ever the weather, I wish you color and joy!

1) The Chinese Elm 2)Black Hero Tulip 3) Lipstick Pink Alpine Strawberry 4)Grace Ward Lithadora 5) Aquilegia (columbine) 6) Sensation Lilac 7) Geranium 8) Blue Flax & Thundercloud Plum

Sunday Stroll Invitation

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
~ John Muir

If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment letting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who's strolling:
Jessica at Foursquare Schoolhouse (look for a couple of strolls over the past week!)
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Me, here at the Quiet Country House
Marcia at Child in Harmony

Sunday Stroll - Sunday Blues

1) self-sown ajuga along the trail; 2) iris blooming one month early 3) heart-leaf brunnera (aka perennial forget-me-not) 4) unidentified bird in the pond (I'm working on identification.)

Sunday Stroll Invitation

Monday Note: I'm still having internet trouble. I will update the list quickly (I'm at a "remote" location) and will probably have to visit all the strolls later in the week, as well as add my own, when we get our connection repaired.


If you have time this week for a Sunday Stroll, please post about it on your blog and then come back here with a comment etting me know that you are joining in, and please include a link to your post. You may use the Sunday Stroll button at the top of this post on your post or sidebar if you would like. I will add participant names to this post so that other strollers may walk through your garden too. I'll check back as often as my day allows and try to keep the list updated. Enjoy the day!

Look who is strolling:
Linda at Crafty Gardener
Cloudhands at Uncarved Block
Heather at What's Blooming this Week
Marcia at Child in Harmony

Sunday Stroll - While the Wild Wind Blows

Who tends the garden?


Who silently climbs a ladder bright,


Stitched of color and woven light?


While soft wings flutter out of sight,

Who tends the garden day and night?

Who softly across the petal-silk creeps,

Watching and waiting while the gardener sleeps?

While the wild wind blows and the gray sky weeps,
Beauty is tended by the Beast.

Where ever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you beauty and light!

Please see my previous post to link to the walks of other strollers!

all photos and text by Aisling, May 2, 2010

1) Arwen in the front garden 2) Merton Tulip 3) Black Hero Tulip 4) Daydream Tulip 5) Angelique Tulip 6 & 7) Daffodil: Butterfly Mix 8) Cloudy Sky 9) Daffodil & unidentified arachnid 9) Daffodil and Mitsumena Vatia (goldenrod spider)