lingering light Part 2

Clarity, cold wax and oil painting by Donna Watson

I decided to divide up my blog posts on my gardens and green house into 3 parts.  My last blog post showed images of my green house or Zen House as I like to call it.  These images here are outside around the the Zen House.

Pots of plants, including a bonsai gingko and a weeping Japanese maple tree near my front porch.

"Silence is essential for deep transformation.  It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become 

deep and effective.  Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to 

see things more clearly; to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us."  

                                                                 -----  Thich Nhat Hanh

Small pond with gold fish

"I walk into a poem and walk out someone else."  Nayyirah Waheed

Large stone water basin

Bamboo water feature with stone lantern and laughing Buddha with Japanese maples and

deer ferns

"The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost."  

Henry David Thoreau

Large water basin with stone Carp, stone temple, stone rabbit with Japanese maple and gingko bush

Large sitting Buddha, natural stone temple, moss garden

Near my Meditation Path,  with tall Honeysuckle bush

Shade garden with bird bath, shade plants, ferns, wisteria on Torii Gate

Wisteria blooming in August

Sit and be still

until in the time 

of no rain you hear

beneath the dry wind's 

commotion in the trees

the sound of flowing

water among the rocks,

a stream unheard before,

and you are where

breathing is a prayer.

Wendell Berry