Black-Eyed Susans, Rudbeckia hirta, near a memorial on the former Hamilton Plantation, St. Simons Island, Georgia, July 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
tabby walls of shell
constant circles bloom and grow
acres lost in time
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, September 5th, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day), WRITING TOPIC – NAMES OF FLOWERS
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I really love lines 2 and 3. Kinda gives me the feeling of hypnotism, which does reflect the photo itself. If I stare at those dark circles long enough, I’ll get lost and become one of them.
Great haiku and photo. 🙂
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Beautiful daisies, the essence of summer. We are witnessing a decline of the Pecos Sunflower, the most prolific bloomer along the ditches and the Rio Grande, due to relentless bulldozing and development. It is a sad thing. I love the sunflowers of New Mexico, with their exuberant multi-heads and sturdy stalks to hold up the birds that feed on them.
Pretty pic, and the haiku too — thanks – We are going to south Georgia coast, Savannah and Tybee Island, at the end of September. I’ll look for those Black-eyed Susans.
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a~lotus, thank you. It seems kind of good to become one of those circles for a time. Think of all they have seen and experienced. And the ancient live oaks in that area of St. Simon’s, too. They will outlive many of us. Strange to think about.
lil, have a great time in Savannah. We did some research on Tybee Island when we were planning our July trip to St. Simons. St. Simons is where our family history is. Tybee is larger and close to Savannah. In fact, one of my nieces had just taken her two kids over to Tybee from Augusta for the day in July.
I’d like to spend more time in Savannah. We did kind of a whirlwind trip. There is so much history there. Will you be visiting Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home? Wasn’t sure if you were into the history of writers in the area. Lots of it there.
There is something amazing about the sunflowers of the Southwest. Once when I drove to Arizona and New Mexico, it might have been one of my first trips there, we saw fields and fields of sunflowers across Arizona. Beautiful sight.
The development is the same in Minnesota. Though here, they wipe out all the bogs and wetlands that naturally purify our water, and fill them in for more cookie cutter houses and condos. It’s a disturbing trend. Thank you for commenting. It’s great to hear from you.
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I think we will do the “ghost tour” with our friends in Savannah – it was very interesting last time, to got through the beautiful squares, the statuary, the cemetery tales and old homes …and maybe O’Connor’s house as well. I have never read her, is there an emoticon for *embarrassed*? What do you recommend? We are going the last week of September.
It’s a spectacular month in New Mexico – the chamisa, the purple asters – and the scent of green chile roasting…
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Really beautiful, QM. Did you happen to grab a few deadheads for seeds at your place? I bet they’d take off in MN. They grow well in NM. Now that I think about it, they’re a hardy, drought-tolerant plant. No wonder they got so big and bushy down south.
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lil, the ghost tour looked great. Are you planning to do the walking one or the ride? It was too hot to walk on our trip. We called about the riding one but it was completely full. I wished we had called ahead on that one. But our time there was so brief and we were playing it by ear as to when we arrived.
Next time, I’d like to take Mom and Liz on the Ghost Tour though. Liz and I did take a few hour history tour of Savannah hot spots the day we left. I’d recommend one of the tours to visitors. You can learn a ton in a short amount of time.
I chuckled at your is there an emoticon for *embarrassed*? (In fact, there is one. But I don’t know the code!) No need for embarrassment though. I had not read any of Flannery’s work until a few years ago. And now that I know more about her life, I really have a different perspective on her work.
So, I’m really new to her work. Her short stories are the most famous and I’ve read some of them. But I really like her letters, The Habit Of Being. I also bought Mystery and Manners but haven’t cracked it open yet. It’s supposed to be about her talks on writing.
The thing about her letters is that they teach so much about her as a person. And her sense of humor, and the culture of the South at the time when she lived, come through so vibrantly in her letters. They have all her books at the house, the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home. If you take the tour, see how you feel afterwards and talk to the guide.
I hope you have a wonderful time in Savannah and at Tybee Island. It seems like a good time of year to visit. Still warm but not as stifling hot as when we were there in July. Take a lot of photos!
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ybonesy, nope, no deadheads. I have to admit, I didn’t even think about it. It’s a good idea though. We have some huge coneflowers in our garden here. But these were bushier and shorter than those. They are so cheery to look at. This photograph just makes me smile. 8)
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