A Push for Some Nature Colouring~

After having a bad cold for days...weeks now, I am ready for sunshine and colour, any colour is better than the drab gray and brown that has shown around for weeks now.  I am talking anything from the powder white of clean fallen snow, to spring, summer and autumn colours, but for now, I must share some of what has been and hope that the new kind comes on soon, for it would perk me up so very much, how about you~

You know that there is nothing quite like an American Robin to usher in a cheerful day~

Autumn colouration of the Oregon Rhododendron to the sweet berries of the Euonymus ...

                                                               Angelic Tulip blossom~

Endless Summer Hydrangea, Mediterranean posies, Tulips and Roses all brighten a day~

                                                      A Rose like sunshine to the soul~

                                              Tulips under the droplets of rain presented~

Jewelweed helps if your skin happens to come in contact with Poison Ivy and Oak and they are also so pretty too.  They are hidden away for now, but soon ;) ~

    Jewelweed, Tulips and Japanese Kaki Persimmons as lovely as any Valentine card~

 

Japanese Kaki Persimmons, a delicacy and also such loveliness held in each fruit offered~

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Japanese Persimmons known to the ancient Greeks as "the fruit of the gods".

Japanese Kakis (Persimmons) known to the ancient Greeks as "the fruit of the gods". They are very high in nutrients, especially glucose, proteins, vitamin C and calcium. They have a sweet, tangy flavor, and can be eaten fresh, cooked, or dried. They are great for baking into desserts such as cookies, cakes and bread puddings, cobblers and crisps. Fresh fruit juice blends along with fresh Persimmons is a wonderfully delicate drink, as well as homemade sorbets. Persimmons are in fact, actually "true berries". The Japanese Kakis shown here are the most widely cultivated in North America. One of the purest of art forms, a precious life giving berry thrust into it's fading beauty, as it withers away on the vine. Finding and cultivating an awareness of the finer things found in sometimes the most mundane. Many would just walk by that withering tree and see no beauty in it's decaying fruit, but not I~