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A Writer’s Garden–Wendy MacDonald’s Garden Poetry

11 Thursday Apr 2019

Posted by Catherine Castle in A Writer's Garden, garden blog series

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A Writer's Garden, garden pictures, garden poems, Wendy Macdonald, Wendy MacDonald poetry

Welcome to A Writer’s Garden where writers who are gardeners or just love gardens will be sharing their garden and flower stories, as well as a bit about their writing gardens—aka their books.

Today’s guest is Wendy MacDonald sharing her garden poetry and exquisite photographs. Welcome, Wendy.

 

What’s Your Favorite Season?

 

I have a favorite season. Do you?

It’s the best time of year in my garden. The flowers are vibrant with color and freshness. I love to kneel down and take macro shots of them because it affords unique and artsy pictures. Although I’ve discovered beauty in every season, spring is the season I long for the most.

As a writer and blogger, I appreciate having crocuses, snowdrops, daffodils etc. to photograph and post along with my poetry and prose. By the end of January, I dig out flower pictures from my spring and summer files to share with readers who may also be tired of winter. Sure enough, I’m never alone in my craving.

It was while I was reading The Secret Garden that I realized my love for spring. Since then, during March, I think of this lovely book when I spy crocus, tulip, and daffodil bulbs poking their green noses through the soil.

Spring, like a good book, holds promise of delightful moments to linger over.

Spring

 Spring brings delight

To our senses and souls

As she waltzes past winter

In purple velvet robes

Spring brings a promise

To engage us all

With a parade of prettiness

That rivals fall.

~ wlm

 

I’m nosy-to-know which season is your favorite?

Spring blessings ~ Wendy Mac

 

About the Writer/Gardener:

Wendy L. Macdonald is an inspirational blogger and podcaster who loves to photograph nature on Vancouver Island. Her byline is: “My faith is not shallow because I’ve been rescued from the deep.” Her main website is wendylmacdonald.com where she enjoys interacting with readers.

To read more of her poems and see her beautiful garden photos, visit Wendy at her blog  https://www.wendylmacdonald.com/

Through A Writer’s Garden with Wendy Macdonald

07 Thursday Jul 2016

Posted by Catherine Castle in A Writer's Garden, garden blog series

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A Writer's Garden, Author Catherine Castle's garden blog, cottage gardens, garden eye chocolate, Garden photos, garden poetry, In the Garden, Wendy Macdonald

Gardens Inspire My Writing

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Gardens are eye chocolate and inspirational caffeine for my writing heart. I tend my own garden mostly for the sake of the inspirational beauty it provides around my home. Beauty inspires, calms, and fills me with joy. If I were given a choice between going on a shopping trip or a garden tour, I’d pick the tour every time. And if I had to choose between a vegetable garden and a flower garden, I’d pick a flower garden because I’d rather starve my body than my soul.

IMG_7489Cottage gardens are my favorite style because you can grow both food and flowers together, and I also love quaint little old character houses surrounded by mature perennials, shrubs, trees, and all things floral.

 

 

 

IMG_6992My imagination and cozy factor get fired up when I peek over the fence of an old-timer property rich with history and charm. I find myself wondering who first loved this home and what the owner’s life was like.

Time in a garden fills my inkwell to the brim. How do gardens inspire you? What’s your favorite kind of garden?

 

In the Garden

 

In the garden I like to go

For a break from daily chores

To dream of places far away

Of flowers grown on foreign shores

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In the garden I like to escape

Into a land of make believe

And pretend I’m a princess in distress

Waiting for my Knight of relief

~

In the garden I like to be

Away from the hustle and bustle of life

As just a writer on her knees

Planting and growing stories to write.

Wendy/ 2016

 

About the Author:

IMG_3037Wendy L. Macdonald is a Canadian, inspirational writer/blogger who also loves to photograph nature. When she’s not writing, drawing, or gardening, she enjoys hiking in the beautiful parks of the Comox Valley with her husband of 32 years. She homeschooled her children and believes all those years of reading aloud helped develop her love of storytelling and writing. Wendy invites you to visit her blog where you will find nature photography, memoir style posts, and links to her” Daily Bread” style Facebook page etc. at www.wendylmacdonald.com  

 

 

 

 

 

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