Poetry Friday: Noticing Nature
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Haiku of the Week
air bubbles
baubles in the ice
glitter the pond
Haiku & Photo © 2023 Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Photo Taken: December 30, 2022 at a park in my neighborhood
Haiku Written: January 2, 2023
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What I’m Reading
by Nancy Ross Hugo
I’d been reading some of Nancy Ross Hugo’s other books and then found this one. If you’d like to take a sneak peek at arrangements she made several years ago, you can look at her blog here.
This the perfect read for so many reasons. It’s perfect for my word of the year: NOTICE. It’s perfect for the winter when nothing seems to be worthy of a vase. This book proved me wrong (and I loved that). It also had me digging into my glass recycling bin for tiny spice jars, glass oil bottles, and soy sauce bottles. I washed the labels off of them and am anxious to find some treasures to put in them. I’m also looking forward to scavenging some thrift stores for unusual containers.
I used a handmade beer flight set to make my first arrangement from my fading Christmas wreath. It’s sitting on my dining room table–not a windowsill though.
31 Comments
Irene Latham
Oh those baubles! Love. And I am constantly playing with glass and light and growing things…your greenery display is lovely. xo
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Irene!
Rose Cappelli
Baubles and bubbles – such fun! You never cease to amaze me in each creative undertaking you embark on. I love your arrangement!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Rose!
Linda Baie
You take (after noticing) amazing pictures, Marcie! I love the baubles and bubbles & the sparkling glitter. I have a few bottles in various places around my house, only dried things now, & my windowsills are too small, but I love that you are looking for ways to fill them.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
My windowsills are small too, so I’m on the hunt for some tiny glass things. The author of the book recommended old vanilla jars!
Alan j Wright
Noticing is a critical skill for a writer/poet/learner, Marcie. You are actively practicing this in spades. Words and pictures provide powerful evidence. Our ability to observe is a life source for our writing. Your haiku, even as a short ofrm of poetry,shows how every word must carry its weight,must count, must deliver.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much, Alan!
Carol Varsalona
Marcie, my sister and I are always looking for unique containers for arrangements. Thanks for pointing me to the blog that brings happy colors into our winter lives. Your haiku has a sparkling essence with its baubles. The photo is so unusual and unique.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Carol, yes! I’ve been digging through my recycling and I went shopping at Goodwill this weekend, spent $5.00 and found some really cool containers.
Laura Purdie Salas
Those glasses are like poems–taking what’s ordinary and showcasing it so we see it more clearly, more beautifully! And I love glitter and baubles in your poem!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Laura! I wasn’t quite ready to part with my Christmas wreath. 🙂
PATRICIA J FRANZ
Exquisite bauble, Marcie – and VERY FUN vase display! Love how nothing goes to waste!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Patricia! My husband was a little stressed when I used his beer glasses (which he NEVER uses) as vases. 🙂
Linda Mitchell
So pretty!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Linda!
Molly Hogan
What a perfect post, offering up the frozen beauty of the outdoors and some tips for creating natural beauty indoors. Love it!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Molly!
Bridget Magee
Your haiku gives me chills, Marcie. In the best possible way. 🙂
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Oh thank you, Bridget!
Susan T.
“Notice” is a great word for the year. I like the haiku with its bubbles and baubles glittering the pond. That’s a lovely way to look at winter.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Yes, it was a super cold day, but it was beautiful!
Kay Jernigan McGriff
I love those baubles in the ice. And that window art looks inspiring
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Kay!
Robyn Hood Black
Love how you had to do some real looking/seeing to celebrate those baubly bubbles! Thanks for sharing. And the book/window-flora display adventure looks and sounds wonderful. I do love me some bottles with character, like the wee syrup bottles at restaurants and such. (Do they still even have those?! ;0) )
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Oh yes! Those syrup bottles. I have a honey jar right now that is soooo charming that I’m putting honey in my tea every day just so I can use it. 🙂
Heidi Mordhorst
I like the way the bubbles and baubles of your haiku connect to the glasses and jars of your windowsill/table art. I have a book that I got from my local library in London in about 1992 that I decided to “lose” and pay for so that I could keep it (no Amazon Books back then). It’s called THE FINISHING TOUCH and it’s about decorating with the things you have and use by arranging them artfully. I really get why you’re enjoying this!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Oh, that book sounds cool!
Laura Shovan
Those bubbles look almost alive!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks! They were pretty cool!
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