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Winter

Hike Photos from Huntington State Park (January 2023)

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 by Polly Castor
Hike Photos from Huntington State Park January 2023

In this post you can see the fruits of my hunt for beauty, texture, and composition in a time when you have to look closely to find it.

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, Huntington State Park, Mindfulness, Nature, Winter 2 Comments

February Abstract Ice Photos from Huntington

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 by Polly Castor
Abstract Ice Photos

Mother nature is fascinating, especially in her most temporal detail.

Categories Photography Tags Huntington State Park, water photography, Winter 2 Comments

Food Photography with Recipe Links (Early Winter 2022)

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 by Polly Castor
Food Photography with Recipe Links (early Winter 2022)

This is what we’ve been eating over here recently.

Categories Food, Ideas Tags food photography, Recipes, Winter 2 Comments

December Hike Photos from Huntington State Park 2021

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 by Polly Castor
December Hike Photos from Huntington State Park 2021

This past month my hikes included daughters and goats!

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, Family, happiness, Huntington State Park, reflections, water photography, Winter 3 Comments

Abstract Photo Compositions of the Season’s First Ice

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by Polly Castor
Abstract photo compositions of ice

These are more subtle than many that jump out at me, but I appreciated them as value studies as well and shape and texture medleys.

Categories Photography Tags Huntington State Park, Nature, Winter 2 Comments

Spring Again (New Poem by Polly Castor)

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 by Polly Castor
Spring Again Poem

Emerging from winter even more mindful, spring bangs in brightly.

Categories Poetry Tags Mindfulness, Poetry by me, Release, spring, Winter 3 Comments

Photos of Melting

March 13, 2021March 13, 2021 by Polly Castor
Photos of Melting

I see compositions everywhere, even in the footprints in the slush.

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, Mindfulness, Nature, snow, Winter 4 Comments

February Photos from our House and out our Windows

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 by Polly Castor

Though I haven’t been anywhere this month, there has been snow, shadows, and interesting light.

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, Mindfulness, snow, Sunset, Winter 6 Comments

Winter Quote from Katherine May with Orchid Photos from Our Window

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 by Polly Castor
Winter Katherine May Quote

Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.

Categories Hope, Ideas Tags Flowers, Winter 5 Comments

Photos from January Walks 2021

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 by Polly Castor
Photos of Huntington State Park January 2021

Here’s what I had fun paying attention to on my chilly walks this month.

Categories Photography Tags Mindfulness, Nature, snow, water photography, Winter 6 Comments

Winter Blessing (New Poem by Polly Castor)

January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 by Polly Castor
Winter Blessing Poem by Polly Castor

Let’s enjoy winter for it is fleeting!

Categories Hope, Poetry Tags Poetry by me, Winter 4 Comments

Photos of First Ice of the Fall

December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by Polly Castor
Photos of First Ice of the Fall

There is great reward in being mindful of the varied expressions of beauty around us.

Categories Photography Tags Fall, Mindfulness, water photography, Winter 5 Comments

Balmy February Hike at Huntington (Photos)

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by Polly Castor
Balmy February Hike at Huntington

I’ll probably use these as photo references for paintings, but I also enjoy them all on their own.

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, Nature, Trees, water photography, Winter 1 Comment

Recent Fairyland Snow Photos

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 by Polly Castor
Fairyland snow photos

Check out my photos of this beautiful snow.

Categories Photography Tags Nature, snow, Winter Leave a comment

This Too Will Melt (New Poem with Snow Photos)

March 6, 2019 by Polly Castor
snow photos

Taking photos
early Monday morning
either out windows or from
our front porch as I gape
in my slippers at the magical
snow clad landscape…

Categories Photography, Poetry Tags Connecticut, Nature, Poetry by me, snow, Winter 1 Comment

Late Afternoon Light in Putnam Park (Photos)

March 1, 2019 by Polly Castor
Late Afternoon Light in Putnam Park (Photos)

Check out the stunning yellow light and intense shadows in the photos in this post.

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, Nature, Trees, Winter 1 Comment

Early February Thaw in Putman Park (Photos)

February 6, 2019 by Polly Castor
February Thaw in Putnam Park

After sub zero temperatures last week that they called “the arctic blast” the past two days have gotten up into the fifties and seemed extremely balmy.

Categories Photography Tags Connecticut, Nature, Winter 2 Comments
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Reviews from Readers

This is spectacular, Polly! I love it!

I am grateful for the myriad ways you celebrate Life in your art, activities and relationships. Your blog is inspiring in its magnification of Soulful goodness!

You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

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Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

Thank you for Saying So Well What Needs To Be SAID!

Hoping others can/will read this…

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Thank you, Polly.

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What a delight to experience the beauty of nature you shared of your slice of the world through these beautiful photos.

I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

I just had to comment on today’s blog. I LOVED it! I have had similar thoughts for some time.

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Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.

Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

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Thank you for passing along such wise words.

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Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

I’m so grateful to be able to enjoy all you so generously share on your blog, the colorful photos, the recipes, the art works, the insights, the book reviews and so much more!

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Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

I just love your photos, Polly. Whether it’s food or art or nature . . . They are always so beautiful and interesting and full of life !

Polly, thanks for “amplifying good”. That’s what you really do!

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

This is relevant and an excellent way for me to look at some situations I have been in recently.
Thank you Polly.
I will continue to benefit…

I love your website, messages, poems and art. Thank you for the blessing of community that you provide.

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

That’s all very helpful for me today, Polly. Thanks for going deep on this. I’m sharing your joy in our Source.

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

It’s a rare inspiration that can uncover an aching joy — but those poems do that. Thanks for sharing this with us.

You share so freely, with so so so much love and joy and an open-open-heart…

We are so blessed with your access to nature and your talent to communicate visually….

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

Yummy and beautiful! I love all the colors and this food looks amazing! The plates too!

I really enjoyed this book, thanks for recommending it.

Thank you for expanding my ways to see, Polly.

Excellent. Thank you for sharing this welcome thought to redirect today’s thinking.
I am grateful for this blog.

Love your pastels!

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

Wow!! I cannot wait to try this recipe! Thank you!

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

Polly always captures the balance between what I can do, and all the miracles I am given.

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

What a stunning place! It is just a slice of heaven. Thank you for sharing its beauty.

I must find the higher spiritual path that nature often helps me see. Thank you for this beautiful poem.

Neat! Love the black and white contrasts enhanced by the light.

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

Thank you for focusing in on and capturing the little things we so often pass by and/or take for granted.

I never before found computers this beautiful….

What lovely Soul-inspired insights! Thank you for these great ideas!

Thank you for writing this opinion so eloquently, Polly. You have addressed many nuances that I have been espousing for years, and your words are powerful and thought-provoking.

Oh my gosh how did you know I needed this today? I am in absolute awe of your thorough and articulate way you describe how all of this works.

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

Thank you for sharing this quote. It is very appropriate for our times. A beautiful wake up call to change our thinking and focus on what is real and true.

Love the photos, as usual. You are a Creative Genius, Polly.

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

Wow. Yes, quite something to contemplate. Thank you, Polly!!

When you get famous, I need to be the president of your fan club.

Helen Frankenthaler’s works were interesting, but I like your abstracts better.

I love this poem, Polly, and I shall read it often! I feel sure it will help lift my thought to healing.

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

Deep and encompassing. Passionate and motherly. Loving and expansive. The photos speak volumes too…and I see the connections with the poem perfectly.

This is absolutely wonderful and so helpful.

Thank you dear Polly!

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

Just a wonderland of possibilities and ideas and the materials to explore and discover. What a beautiful, exciting place! I’ve taken all this glory into my heart today and am grateful for it.

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

Synesthesia! I can taste the yellows and hear the oranges! A feast to the senses! Brava talented Polly

Polly, please keep sharing these pages! I love seeing them. You inspired me to do the same thing.

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

I love the feeling of playfulness and of uninhibited joy.

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words:warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

This poem is what I needed to further focus on moving out of the fear of COVID.❤️

The colors are exquisite!!! Thanks for bringing so much beauty into our lives.

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

Polly lets her spirituality into her art as you can see in the many abstract paintings she creates. We were wowed by her ability and her encouragement of others to express themselves artistically.

I love the photos – such a gift which makes me feel closer to Fall, my favorite season.

Your inspiration and love of nature is appreciated!

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

This blog is so prolific and original, inspiring and joy producing.

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You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

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Illuminating thoughts, thank you for sharing them. Very clear.

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing…. like a bird, natural and beautiful, just singing out truth in her special song on a fine winter morning.

Thank you Polly for sharing those wise words! I heartily agree with them all now I have a bigger perspective on life.

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

Thank you for this exercise in balance, Polly. Helps a lot!

Thank you for bringing to light and sharing an undeniably important part of the one stupendous whole we all share…the countless ways beyond sight, and not to be missed, always at hand.

Thankful every morning to see another treasure from you in my emails !

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

I enjoy your blog so much. But today you are on top. Every thought you expressed so lovingly…. some very funny but always with love. Thank you for all you bring to so many .

This is such a beautiful and loving blog and feels much like your amazing dynamic spiritual art. You are proving and sharing truth in a precious, creative, encouraging, and heartfelt way. You inspire me!

Your multiple images and vocabulary choices give energy and renewed resolve to flagging spirits. Thank you for sharing.

Your food is presented in such an artistic way that it looks beautiful, wholesome and totally delicious!!

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

Polly your blog is simply a marvelously enriching, thought provoking part of the daily wonders of life! I give thanks for you and the blog!

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

Thank you so.much, Polly. It says with abundant clarity what thousands upon thousands of thoughtful men and women think and believe. I appreciate you!!

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

Thank you for the insight. Especially separating church from a building or denomination. The passion and joy of color in your paintings is marvelous.

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

That definitely sounds like a book I’d like to read! Thanks Polly!

Polly, what amazing and timely insight in these wise words! Thanks for sharing this wisdom.

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

I can’t tell you how helpful this has been to me today. I must’ve read it half a dozen times or more. It’s helping me with a great challenge. Thank you!

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

This blog is colorful, beautiful, and edifying.

I’m new to your site and I love today’s post about being grateful!

Thanks so much for this recommendation Polly. We watched in awe … and have recommended in turn.

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

Wow! What a stunning collection of gorgeous images and though-provoking quotes. They made my day.

Oh how I love this! Thank you, thank you!

Thank you for sharing the joy of your trip with us. I feel blessed this morning to know you in all the ways you reveal good and magnify it.

I am touched by this well thought out, well written essay. You have put into words what so many of us have in our minds and hearts. Thank you!

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

Thank you for sharing this.
Strange, nothing surprising here.
You are who you are.

Providing us with wonderful refreshment, enlightenment, peace, encouragement, joy,
and a whole lot more. Thanks, Polly!

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting.Your talent is incredible!!!

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

Polly, you have such a great feel for things. I will enjoy you forever.

Beautiful photos! All that color, texture & gorgeous pattern….

Thank you for your generosity and your overflowing sense of soul which you share so beautifully and articulately with everyone!!

This blog is a daily dose from an spiritually-oriented, artist, thinker, sage.

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

This is so well thought out and written. Thank you for this compelling essay. I agree with you on all points, Polly.

Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination.

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

Excellent, meaningful, quotes. Thanks!

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

Really enjoyed your poem on Animal magnetism. Very clear truths. Thank you. Your vibrant art work is superb.

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

This couldn’t possibly be more perfect, – so reassuring, and so fully expresses in every way what we all are praying for. Thank you for your a beautiful heart and generous giving of it!!

You capture so vividly the beauty of nature. Thank you for bringing such beauty into my every day.

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

I am so grateful for your generous sharing of ideas across so many different fields! Your colorful art, your beautiful photography, your tasty looking and well presented dishes, your uplifting ideas, your insightful book reviews, and your wonderful healing work! You truly are a polymath!! I so look forward to your daily offerings and rejoice in them all.

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

This is one of the BEST explanations of one’s understanding of God I have seen in a long time. The image paired with the text was spot on!

I am one of your readers who definitely looks forward to a positive message from you every morning. You grow people.

I’ve just finished this book and I loved it! Thanks for recommending it.

I love your blog! I shared it with my mom, an artist, and she is impressed with your art. I’ve also spent time studying your paintings. Just listened to your interview, it was stellar! Thank you!!

Well done Polly, I love your book reviews! Please carry on the good work of guiding our book choices.

Well said Polly!

Life is so exciting we should limit ourselves less!

Let’s all have a productive day and be joyful!

Thank you! I enjoy reading your notes from the Bible Lesson. Your interpretation is helpful for my thought and I’m sure many others.

I loved this book, Polly. Thank you so much for the recommendation.

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

Outstanding message! And a sure “wake-up” call for me regarding mortal decline. I’m off on a refreshing direction. Thanks, Polly.

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

Polly….I’m happier because of you; I sure do thank you.

Thank you for introducing me to wonderful, amazing authors.
Love the pictures of your elegant flowers.

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

Thank you for revealing this idea you’ve been following. I can tell when an angel has tapped me on the shoulder–it feels light and right and fun.

These are awesome. You have such a gift for photography…and for pastels…and for cooking…and for finding interesting books…and, and, and. Where does it end?

You brighten my life with your thoughts, views, words, pictures….

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

Wonderful words of wisdom, Polly!

Perspective is everything – and choosing a liberating one blesses everyone, as you point out!

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to your positive thoughts and love.

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

Yes indeed! You are a shining light and you are definitely using all your wonderful talents

Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative and articulate book review, Polly!

Wish I had gotten this message 75 years ago. It makes so much sense and would have saved me a lot of self criticism. I love your blog.

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

The Spirit at work is so well described here. In between the lines I read that
our only true peace is in pleasing Our Creator! Thank you deeply, Polly!

Polly, I’m grateful for you, your prayerful work, your blog, your art, photos, words and colors.

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

Polly, I needed you today and there you were and it was enough. Thank you for being a motivator.

So beautiful, Polly. Thank you for spelling out – through such artful means – the beauty of patience.

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

Polly! I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth! Yes!! Thank you for all the delightful imagery!

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

Thank you for your commitment to reality and our true nature!

This speaks to me. Love your work, Polly.

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

Once again, you have come through for us with such clear and coherent thinking and put into words the feelings in our hearts.

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

Beautiful and profoundly perfect for pandemic season, your poem empowers hope for what’s next. I plan to read it at Sunday Devotional. Thank you!

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

Polly, I love your poem “you were never unwanted”. This poem really hit home. Thank you for your words of wisdom

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

I’m so grateful for all you share with us.

I love your swirling universes, the spirals that draw one in and introduce us to ourselves.

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth.

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.

Today’s post was a Gift from God. Opening your email this morning truly lifted my Spirit. Thank you.

Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

What a breath of fresh air!! Thank you for your honesty, integrity and willingness to speak out for Truth and Justice!!!

I have been blessed beyond words by your daily posts. I often quote you to others, saying I got the idea from a wonderful friend I’ve never actually met.

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

With its awesome art, recipes, book reviews, and really excellent writing, this blog is the perfect corner of the internet.

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

Amazing, Polly! A wonderful example of seeing the possibilities…creativity at its best.

Well Done! This is such a wonderful venture. Your work is just extraordinary!

Gorgeous new work. I love the vitality of the city scenes and vibrant color palette.

Your photos have opened my eyes to the beauty surrounding us everywhere.

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

I LOVE YOU!!

You amuse-inspire-edify-entertain-inform-uplift-enhance-educate-color!-…my days!

A wonderful poem Polly! Thank you. Deeply nourishing….

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

These thoughts you shared are a keeper for me to revisit when in need. You are a blessing to many!

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

Thank you for bringing your beautiful great outdoors into my world.
You do a great job taking pictures. The colors are so vibrant and I like that you notice
shadows.

This blog is really stimulating and motivating.

Thank you for this. Read it. Gave me hope. Going through an “unsure” time. Thank you for these words of strength, hope, and faith.

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

Wow Polly!! You are buzzing with ideas.

Butter! Lemon! Garlic!

It’s like a prayer!!!

The last day of the month on your blog is always a BIG treat . . . This morning I went from fasting to feasting . . .

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

All of your work is eye and mind popping. I love it!

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

Really beautiful, very hope filled. I love this!

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

Wow! Love the abundance of exotic shapes and colours in the Autumn sunshine!

Love the poem so so much and the first painting with the trees is INCREDIBLE!!

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

Graciously and lovingly spoken, like a true friend to all. Thank you for your blog Polly.

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

Thanks, Polly! Your zest for the good things in life makes me feel happy too!

So beautiful and I have shared it with so many others. Thank you!

Thanks for your strong, bright and clear art work!

Absolutely beautiful!!! I love these particular colors together and the different styles and techniques really give it a lot of depth and texture. Brilliant!!!!

Thanks for the nudge!

You continue to inspire, impress, and
amaze me, Polly.

I really enjoy reading your blog – but I have to say that your monthly ‘Bits and Clips’ posts and your ‘Grace Notes’ posts are my favorite :)

Thank you very much, Polly. You are a bright light!

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

I appreciate the joy, inspiration, and great information you provide us in your blogs.

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

Oh so beautiful! I keep coming back to look at the paintings again.

I think you have covered absolutely every way anyone would wish to be blessed

Your blog has inspired me to get back into painting, cooking, prayer and meditation.

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

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