Xylophone
X has to be one of the toughest letters to work a post around. Today, all I've got is a cool xylophone solo I found on YouTube.
This is my X post for the A to Z Blogging Challenge....
Vanilla
My mom's favorite flavor of fudge is vanilla, so she had to pick up a slice when we stopped at the MainStreet Fudge & Popcorn Company in Berlin, Ohio on Saturday. Amber chose Butterfinger and we took peanut butter home for David. There were three cases full of flavors and even more popcorn choices. I admit it, we go to Amish Country for the food.
This is my V post for the A to Z Blogging Challenge.
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Untamed
The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas, 1913-2000
My garden is the wild
Sea of the grass. Her garden
Shelters between walls.
The tide could break in;
I should be sorry for this.
There is peace there of a kind,
Though not the deep peace
Of wild places. Her care
For green life has enabled
The weak things to grow.
Despite my first love,
I take sometimes her hand,
Following straight paths
Between flowers, the nostril
Clogged with their thick scent.
The old softness of lawns
Persuading the slow foot
Leads to defection; the silence
Holds with its gloved hand
The wild hawk of the mind.
But not for long, windows,
Opening in the trees
Call the mind back
To its true eyrie; I stoop
Here only in play.
This is my U post for the A to Z Blogging Challenge....
Thumbelina
I have mixed feelings about Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Some are just so moralistic and some just too sad. "Thumbelina," however, has a happy ending and though there are a few sad moments it's overall an enjoyable story. The version I read was from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Mrs. Henry H. B. Paull, 1875.
The tale opens in a rather traditional way with a woman who desperately wants a child. She goes to a fairy for help and the fairy sells her a barleycorn which she plants in a flower-pot. It grows a lovely flower and when the flower opens, a tiny girl, Thumbelina, also called Tiny, emerges. Thumbelina has a lovely life with the woman until one night, when she is asleep in her walnut-shell cradle, she gets carried off by a toad who wants the miniature maiden as a bride for her son. With the help of friendly fish and a butterfly,...