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Charlie Sue and I enjoy the ballet, which started in bits. There would be one film about ballet, another one about a single dancer, and even a movie or two about modern dance. Lately we have been watching Russian ballet - Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.
I am in awe when I watch the Kirov performances. Costumes are like flowers in the garden. Each scene displays a great range of colors and designs. The dancing is graceful and athletic beyond belief. Christina and I got on a program where we could swim at a motel's indoor pool and hot-tube for almost nothing. One time a couple from the ballet were there to loosen up. The young lady's eyes were always on her male counterpart. She stood in the hot-tube and raised her leg straight up, pointing her foot to make it perfect...and hard to believe.
The garden is coming to life early. We are having 70 and up to 80 degrees. The early daffodils showed green, developed yellow blooms, and burst into bloom yesterday for the Lenten service. Now at least 50 are in full bloom. No one has any up so far, not a gardening cul-de-sac, so I will distribute the daffodils Friday or Saturday. It is actually good for them to be cut early and give the bulbs more solar energy to grow and multiply. That is why one friend said, "You do not NEED any more flowers."
The ballet and the flowers are quite similar, only the daffodils work in complete harmony, starting at the very first spoken Words of Creation in Genesis 1, confirmed in John 1, a sermon on Genesis 1.
No one come close to the majestic order and colors of God's Creation. I love to see the tiny wild strawberries bloom and fruit, filling in blank spots and feeding the birds, who air freight them to new locals. As many know, I created the green fence, cutting the backyard in half, simply with logs. "What are you doing?" I said, "The birds will land on the logs for spotting movement in the grass. They will leave behind their favorite food plants, like wild strawberries. Soon we will have a green fence for free.
Since the fence cuts the backyard almost in half, Charlie Sue races around the oval circle, backyard to front yard, grinning and holding a squeaky toy in her mouth.
Some of these plants are on the way to blooming:
Joe Pye Weed
Butterfly Weed
Dandelions
Various kinds and colors of daffodils
A wide variety of roses
Cannas
Clethra - the Cinnabon shrub
Hyacinths
Lilies
Honeysuckle - "You paid those weeds?!"
Anything known as a butterfly plant, including butterfly weeds.
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How can people question the beauty and perfection of Creation when it is all around us?
