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Sep 3Liked by Tricia Kyzer

Wow, what a honey feast of gold! Your photos are so deep and wise, with attention to scientific details, and to the beauty. Ah, the beauty of gold. Wonderful.

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Thank you. The more I look, the more I see. The fields keep getting more golden everyday.

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Aug 24Liked by Tricia Kyzer

The golden light, meadow lands and prairie lands, with their grasses and flowers of all sorts are my favorite landscape. Beautiful photos, and I like how you notice even the smallest things and take joy in them. Combining the economy of the meadow with the economy we live in is thought provoking. Your corn bread is spectacular! Thank you.

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The cornbread was amazing. A new and different kind of recipes that incorporated my place. I loved it. Sometimes I really do get caught up in the tiny things. The funny thing is that in most of life I am a big picture person. I just can't help but be amazed by nature and get caught up in tiny obsessions.

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Yes, nature provides us with "pictures" in all levels of distance or closeness (that sounds awkward, but I can't come up with a word for "distance or closeness." Not enough coffee yet!) Sometimes the tiny views are the absolute best and revealing!

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Aug 18Liked by Tricia Kyzer

The beauty of your photos is only surpassed by that of your words!

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Thank you Beth! The photos were so much fun to take. I especially was fascinated with the nectaries on the partridge peas. Did you know those little drops of nectar are as sweet as can be? I did taste to check 😊

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Aug 18Liked by Tricia Kyzer

I'm gonna have to give them a taste! People always look at me weird when I stop to lick a yellow poplar flower or eat the fresh tips of smilax. Such fun tasting nature! (This week I made fruit leather from the juice of pindo palm fruit!)

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This is one of the many reasons we are friends!

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Aug 18Liked by Tricia Kyzer

Lovely words, lovely photos, lovely cornbread! I can tell you had fun putting this together, and stringing the economic metaphor throughout. Brava! Thank you for sharing the wealth.

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Thank you Jeanne! It has been fun playing with the metaphor, for sure. But even more fun has been the hours of time I have spent looking closely at my meadows. I have been thrilled with the extravagance.

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