“When you’re a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don’t have a thought in your mind. It’s purely meditation, and we lose that.” ~Dick Van Dyke
That childhood magic. That meditation with literally nothing in your mind but the sweet senses of smell, sight, touch, hearing as you observe nature. Looking for the simplicity that it all brings, the unburdening.
And to find it, I just have to look out at my garden. See a color. A flower. A combo. And I am there just daydreaming with my senses.
Recently, I saw a burst of floral magic growing on a trellis just outside my patio door filled with clouds of blooms. It is a clematis called, Chacewater. A beautiful, rare find from Brushwood Nursery.
I love how it takes off in spring and fills the trellis with beautiful green foliage waiting until June to start to show buds hanging like raindrops from the vine.
And then it bursts forth in blooms that just keep going well in to July before it finishes.
I hate cutting any of the blooms or buds, but this year I felt compelled to take a few here and there to place in a delicate Belleek vase of bone china.
The clouds of blooms brought indoors to lose myself in.
And they last a long time in the vase.
With this vase, I am joining in with the wonderful meme, In A Vase On Monday, from Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
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