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The world can seem like a rather dark and ugly place at times, so much so that I have tended to avoid the news of late, it’s just too distressing and depressing to hear or to watch. It’s at times like these that I turn to quotes from the wise including the delightful Dumbledore as he rightly suggested that ‘Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light’.
I was reminded of this quote today whilst out on our weekly jaunt with the dogs; we’d just finished feeding the ducks and I was walking back towards the square with a skip in my step and burgers on the brain when I spotted what I deemed to be beautiful flowers popping from the hedgerows. My Mum was quick to correct and to educate me, explaining that the wonderful white petals were in actual fact weeds that entwined themselves around plants.
Still, I found the pretty petals fascinatingly beautiful and I was reminded of Dumbledores ‘happiness’ quote and realised it didn’t quite fit as well as Eller Wheeler Wilcox’s wonderful words – “A weed is but an unloved flower”, and so here we have this weeks snapshot – an unloved flower.
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Same here! I really needed to take a break and work on a small painting. I love that quote from Dumbledore. I love wildflowers, even though they are weeds. The one you found is really gentle and beautiful. So glad you took a photo of it.
-Soma
Thanks
That made me laugh because I made the exact same mistake seven years ago, when we first moved into our house. We had some of these flowers in the garden, which I recognised from the hedgerows. I thought they had a certain countryside charm, so I posted one on Instagram and my friend said ‘do you have a bindweed problem?’. And I was desperately thinking ‘what is bindweed?’, ‘where is the problem?’. The problem couldn’t possibly be my beautiful flower, could it?
Now after years as a very reluctant gardener doing the weeding every week they almost make me feel sick to look at! I hate them with a passion!
Ha yeh but they are so pretty !
It’s a very pretty unloved flower. It’s good to turn off the depressing news of late.
Exactly