Garden of Remembrance

Linking up with One Community, a monthly photo project in which participants photograph their lives and communities with a theme in mind. The theme varies by month. The goal is to both showcase similarities and differences in our communities worldwide – and bring us all closer together in understanding through art.  This month's words of inspiration are :

Five, Mother, Recipe, and Remember.

Hosted by Sarah at Beauty School Dropout

My Mother loved to garden. Her love for gardening was second only to her love of words. She could not cook.

This is my tribute to Mom. Gone, but never forgotten.

Beautiful hellebores, which have self-seeded in my garden.
Five delicate petals nodding gently in the spring breeze.

A favourite photo of Mom, a wearer of hats.

A heart to remember.
A window on the garden my Mother never got to see.

My Mother's best recipe.

A little work

A little play.

A lot of love -

And that's a day.

Photography by Lesley Beeton

One Community: March 2014

One Community is a monthly photo project in which participants photograph their lives and communities with a theme in mind. The theme varies by month. The goal is to both showcase similarities and differences in our communities worldwide – and bring us all closer together in understanding through art.  

Words for March chosen by Sarah at Beauty School Dropout :

shower, calm, green, friendship

Join One Community: March 2014 at Beauty School Dropout

Welcome to my One Community, with thanks to Sarah.

Fancy a cool, natural shower? 
This inviting pool and rock shower is a pleasant reminder of holidays in 
my homeland South Africa, and of childhood play. 
Now living in the UK, my life is a far cry from this, not least because of the weather,
but also because you simply don't see scenes like this in suburban Surrey.

This pleasant location is my calm. 
The tree dominating the photo is Mom's tree. It is where we
scattered her ashes. It is where we come to reflect. 
Surrey is a wooded county, and this beech tree is typical
of the woodland near to my home. 
Quite different from the rugged scene of my childhood above.

Signs of spring are everywhere now. Green shoots and tender leaves.
The mild, wet winter has brought the fruit trees on quite early, 
perhaps too early for a good crop. Time will tell. 
I love the light and rain drops on these young leaves in my garden.

These two 'babies' were the best of friends. 
The dog in the foreground died in 2012. His best pal mourned his loss. 
In life, they never stopped playing, and read each other's next move perfectly. 
A very good example of friendship.

Photography by Lesley Beeton

One Community - January

This is a photo blogging linky. The word prompts this month are: 

Treasure

Silver

Resolution

Winter 

You can join in the linky here. 

Treasured memories ~ holidays in Bali
Exotic and a little bit dangerous

Silver ~ forever in my heart
A daily reminder of my late Mother, who loved the garden

Resolution ~ the patterns of life
The DNA of seven people, resolved to just a few hundred bases
 of a gene implicated in cardiovascular disease*

*To science and beyond: Nature or nuture?

Winter ~ a snowy Skimmia in my garden
The subject of our Christmas card this year

With thanks to Sarah at Beauty School Dropout for hosting

Photography by Lesley Beeton

One Community - December

This is a photo blogging linky. The word prompts this month are: needle, pillow, chair, speech. You can join in the linky here. As winter sets in, my photographs are memories of an English summer. 

Needle
I found this seed head strangely beautiful.
The long elegant needles proudly holding up their pin heads to ripen.

Pillow
The puppy adores the old boy. She snuggles at any opportunity.
And he is resigned to being her pillow.

Chair
This beautiful chair greeted us when we arrived for our forest holiday in the summer.
Everyone stopped to touch it, to rub it, to feel its warmth and beauty.

Speech
This photo sums up the village I live in.
Summer fete.
Fancy dress contestant being interviewed as a princess.

Thanks to Katia for the reminder to join in.

Photography by Lesley Beeton