Shadow Shot Sunday...My Sister's Garden...

I went to my sister's garden
drifts
like frosting on cupcakes
brought back those times
as a child
I would've plunged
deep into the memories
of the heart

playing


at picnics and parties and
days of unending fun in the sun
it lies in wait
'neath sheets of white cotton bunting
again
my thoughts move to summer's breath
clothes on the line

working


while gulls hover
o'er seas of crystal mists
just wait
this is beauty all around
seasons of snows
and crisp brilliant air
breathing new life
again
it always does

waiting

and again summer's warm breath
will part the seas
of winter
as it always does
and I'll be playing
and working
and waiting and

dreaming


s.wilson


Yes, playing with the toys of summer, seems so far away though, however the days move so much quicker after the age of 60...don't they...yet you can slow them you know...just sit on a swing on your porch and remember the summers past...it slows time, really...but don't forget your woolies...right now you'll need'um...brrrr....

So, maybe if we're lucky, our Aussie friends will show us some shadows in the sunshine and blossoms of summertime down under...PLEASE!!!...Hey Harriet!!!

While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads...

...us crazy antique dealers are dreaming of white chips of paint and rusty bits of metals...

...door knobs and...

...lawn chairs...

and old drawers...

...these are a few of my favorite things...

...well, you know how the tune goes...

There are so many textures to this wonderful world and being able to sell them to you is a wonderful thing and a gift that we try to give every day...
...so check us all out, there's a bunch of us...
Sweet Repose- Sister's Garden and Bloom-Friend's Candle Shed-White-The Junk Asylum-Cross Creek-The Noe Haus-PollyAnnes-Fern Hill-Gatherings-The Nest-Manley's Antiques-Past Times...
Sounds like a day trip to me...

Respect the wild things...

A young gal came into the shop the other day with the coolest window, she wanted a hunting scene for her husband for Christmas...can you pull this off???

Well, as you can see, the window has six panes...hmmmm...how am I gonna pull this one off for just $45.00...then I got to thinking, why not do a view from the window...like the young man is looking out his window and sees a day of tramping in the cornfields...whatta ya think...

...as one of my cement waterfowl lies buried and frozen into place by winter's fury...supposed to be 40 degrees by Sunday, maybe this lil' pelican will see the light of day and Lorie and I can finish our move in the Amanas...hope so!

I'll Miss You My Bonnie Bud

a winter's crown
settles on your scarlet bonnet
you've turned
your back on summer
oh, how I wish
I loved you
in the winter...

the evening breath
is long and cold
and loneliness settles in
and my green fields
are long gone away
oh, send me songs of springtime
and I shall love you
in the winter...

I know I'm a dreamer
my bonnie bud
ne'er turn your
back on me again
your mem'ry fixed
you are mine forever
while I silently drift
and winter draws e'er nearer

I'm not a poet
I'm a dreamer
I'm a lover
of your rolling plains
and of flakes of snow adrift
and of golden pollen
settling on the ruby bud
of a thought
and a whim
of the winds...


s.wilson

Well...this is what happens when it snows and there's a silence all around...the highways are closed to traffic as winter boils all around me...yet soft music, hot tea and memories of summer drift ever so sweetly in my mind's eye...and tell me again why I moved back to Iowa from Florida...

The textures of a season...come on in...

Yes, we are having fun at Sister's Garden and Bloom...'tis the season, though we're all soon gonna be stranded at home for a couple of days, with the blizzard in full swing, we sit and wait and plan for spring...it will be here before we know it...right...

Win'try WHITE...

Well, this is the first thing I saw when I ventured out this morning...YUCK...

WINTER!!!
Well, we hoped it would wait at least another week so we could get all of our merch out of the Amanas...yeah right...They say another 2-4 inches will be here tomorrow, that is not furniture moving weather...right...



However...it will certainly not deter the 'White Girls'...we are hard at it...dragging in junk from all over the place. My yard and trailer are empty, just in time before buried in snow.
This is my first glimpse of the new digs...OMG...it's HUGE!!!

But you know us...we love to junk and we have many dealers jockeying for a position in our new junkers colony(mall)...

If you are interested in a space, just give a holler, email or call us and we'll fix ya right up...
go to the White blog for more photos...gotta go shovel...

Shadow Shot Sunday...Pearls...

a little girl and her pearls

mere pebbles
gleaming streams of starlight
through her royal world,
princess notions
of walls on high
and castles to the sky,
her prince awaits
at the guarded gate
for m'lady's heart
and the notions
of a girl
and the pearl
in her heart...

the wisdom
of her seasons come
and her seasons go,
but the notions of a princess
share the sky
with the stars
and the hearts
and the spirits
of all gone by,
as flocks of princess'
fill the sky
with dreams
and pearls
of a season flown by...

to be again
that girl
with the pearls
and a notion
of a season gone by
to a castle in the sky
and a pearl
 in the heart
of a girl...


s.wilson



Hey, hey, Hey, Harriet...as you know, it's Sunday in Australia and we've all gathered again...a group of virtual friends sharing our visions of shadows and a thought in the moment of our time here together...enjoy and check us out...we're cool!

Busy, busy, busy...............................

A new necklace for 'The Wild Thing'...
recycled beer bottles are made into these wonderful dark brown beads,
the strawberry charm and juicy, red, crystal drips, 'long side the 'sweet' charm,
make a delectable setting and is for sale on 'The Wild Thing' blog...

Not much time right now to blog, our winter open house is tonight and much work is still needing to be finished at The Candle Shed. Piper and I have been painting on old windows, giving them a holiday touch...she's done the cutest snowmen, with the cutest themes...I'll post when she's finished...but one of mine is ready for exhibition...

Gotta run, I'm finishing a necklace before I'm off to work...
no rest for the wicked...

New news on the 'WHITE' blog...

The hangin' of the greens...Winter Solstice...

Some people trace the origin of the Christmas tree to an earlier period. Even before the Christian era, trees and boughs were used for ceremonials. Egyptians, in celebrating the winter solstice -- the shortest day of the year -- brought green date palms into their homes as a symbol of "life triumphant over death". When the Romans observed the feast of saturn, part of the ceremony was the raising of an evergreen bough. The early Scandinavians were said to have paid homage to the fir tree.

To the Druids, sprigs of evergreen holly in the house meant eternal life; while to the Norsemen, they symbolized the revival of the sun god Balder. To those inclined toward superstition, branches of evergreens placed over the door kept out witches, ghosts, evil spirits and the like.This use does not mean that our Christmas tree custom evolved solely from paganism.

Trees and branches can be made purposeful as well as symbolic. The Christmas tree is a symbol of a living Christmas spirit and brings into our lives a pleasant aroma of the forest. The fact that balsam fir twigs, more than any other evergreen twigs, resemble crosses may have had much to do with the early popularity of balsam fir used as Christmas trees.

Don't forget to pick up a candle at 'The Candle Shed' with the fresh scent of a newly trimmed tree and soaps from 'Sweet Repose' with the cooling scent of balsam...
your home smell like Christmas all year long with the scents of soy wax candles
from 'Friends'.

Out my front door...

As I drive the highway from the pink chateau to the city, a city whose population hasn't risen since I was a kid...is an industrial city, run by corporations...corporations that pollute...

...a cloud of corporate smog envelopes a city ravaged by greed...these corps have laid off hundreds of workers my age, those planning on working and have benefits till a respectable retirement age...it's the way of it in today's world...

A grain processing manufacturer...not only do they pollute the sky on a crisp winter day, but the smell can be had for miles all 'round two states...and to add to the mix is our coal powered electric plant...did you know that coal is clean energy...

WHATEVER...

What they would have you believe, as they hold the monopoly all over the states, polluting the air and the waterways and causing cancers to spread rampantly with their coal wastes...but it's about the tax revenues isn't it...

I also live near another polluter, just on the edge of the county line...where it's legal to burn wastes...yes, a logger...oh, the old growth timber that I've seen run through this mill owned by one of the city's wealthiest attorneys...and a slum lord, is a sad state for us that live near...a mile as the crow flies...

Waste, greed, pollution and unemployment...typical of cities in America these days...I think of the families displaced by corporate thugs...now owned by 2nd and 3rd generations of families that started these businesses...whose greed is insatiable...is it a task for karma...

What goes around, comes around...