Tag Archives: botany

Gift #1166: Kew Gardens

Posted on September 28, 2019 by ordinarymiracletoday

At the top of my list of places I wanted to visit while in London was Kew Gardens.  This formidable bastion of botany has long enchanted visitors with its beautiful gardens and intoxicated scientists with its enviable collections.  I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Gift #1097: Garden Whimsy

Posted on July 15, 2017 by ordinarymiracletoday

Hello again!  I’m hoping by August to become a bit more consistent with my blog posts.  There’s not much hope for the rest of July though.  I’ve been thinking about what to write for the next post and had been … Continue reading →

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Gift #977: Orchids

Posted on March 17, 2016 by ordinarymiracletoday

I think I had mentioned that my mom and I ended up at the Art Museum, quite unplanned on Saturday.  I had been avoiding it since the Gustave Baumann exhibit is gone-  it seemed too painful to go back knowing … Continue reading →

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Gift #577: Orchids

Posted on March 8, 2014 by ordinarymiracletoday

So now in our tour of the greenhouses of the art museum, we come to the orchid room.  Like the succulents, there does not seem to be much in the way of poetic maxims about the flowers.  A brief reading … Continue reading →

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Gift #576: First Succulents

Posted on March 6, 2014 by ordinarymiracletoday

I saw the first succulents of the year in the greenhouse over the weekend.  It is not an exaggeration to say that my heart twittered and flip-flopped enough to make me think I had an arrhythmia.  I thought that I … Continue reading →

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Gift #575: From the Greenhouse

Posted on March 5, 2014 by ordinarymiracletoday

Over the weekend I went to the IMA (Indianapolis Museum of Art).  I’ve only been once before to the main museum.  But on this trip I discovered that they have nature trails, several gardens, and a greenhouse!  Now there’s not … Continue reading →

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Gift #511: Withered leaves

Posted on December 5, 2013 by ordinarymiracletoday

We’ve had a couple weeks of freezing temperatures now and the last remnants of green have been nearly swept away.  There’s a beauty in the architectural form of plants when the leaves have withered away.  In Indiana we are fortunate … Continue reading →

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Gift #430: A walk with Anthropologie

Posted on September 1, 2013 by ordinarymiracletoday

My local Anthropologie store has outdone itself  this month.  I’ve not seen it so beautiful since the winter of 2011 when the store was transformed into a woodland wonderland.  Now it is a forest in the transition between summer and … Continue reading →

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Gift #423: Summer lilies

Posted on August 23, 2013 by ordinarymiracletoday

We’re back to flowers now.  I’ve been going through these photos, and found some that I had meant to share a while back, but ended up blogging about other things.  So now it’s time for summer lilies to have their … Continue reading →

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Gift #347: White Tree Blooms

Posted on May 27, 2013 by ordinarymiracletoday

I took these pictures a while back with the trees were blooming.  The white blossoms on this tree were amazingly beautiful.   I’m so blessed to live in an area where I can experience the joy of changing seasons.  And … Continue reading →

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