The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: Garden

  • #Coloryourworld #cyw #vividviolet #violet Very striking – you stand out in a crowd In fact, your flower heads  offset the other colours in the border, from the Orange of the marigolds surrounding your stem or the Lemon yellows of the pansies nearby Everyone in the garden, enjoys your colourful view, as They pass you walking…

  • It IS Easy Being Green! Its quite easy being green Watching the plants wake from the cold of winter sprouting new shoots from barren branches Calamatous cold conditions giving way to glorious growth watching wiry stems produce perfect petals Evergreens look on proudly as new growth comes from fallen seed proud parent watching little seedlings Rainbows…

  • #coloryourworld #cyw #wisteria when you look at this plant it’s funny how it works its way around supporting walls or trees the branches climb high, into blue sky eventually allowing flowers to display ravishing colours of purple, violet or pink in some instances, even brilliant white an oriental climber at home on any garden wall

  • Blue Violet

    Now the flowers on the bushes were somewhere in – between as the bluebells merged somewhat seamlessly into the gardens lavender patch   Dainty little flowers occupying the small space tween two giants of the flowerbed attracting the fauna   The children smiled as they picked them as it seemed very strange to them the…

  • Bluebell

    #Coloryourworld #cyw #flowers #bluebell Bluebell By Brian F Kirkham (inkdropk) From deep among the woodland green a musical flower sends out the call swaying in the gentle breeze, it passes a message from brother to sister it goes through the trees as the messengers sway in the gentle wind with the arrival of Spring “wake…

  • Periwinkle

    #Coloryourworld #cyw #blues #periwinkle Periwinkle – an acrostic by inkdrop for the coloryourworld challenge   Perhaps the most pastel of blues in the garden every gardener worth his greenfingers knows you for your lavender flowers reaching out to the morning light of the sun if there was an apt description when you’re seen waving in the…

  • Waterfalls and Closeups

    Friday 3rd March 2017 Another session of Basic Clicks, the photography group at Brain and Spinal Injury Centre in Salford Before proceeding with the photography – I enjoyed a nice bowl of soup in the cafeteria….and took a pic of it…. The session worked primarily on composition, and setting up shots using our various cameras. …

  • Snow 🌨

    Salford 28th February 2017 So, here it goes new Year and January have left the party old father times moving on to spring winter ❄️ you would think 💭 is getting ready to take a nap 😴 somebody didnt read the script at the pole northern winds have delivered something, covering over the terracotta tiles…

  • Pine Green

        #Coloryourworld #CYW #Green #Pine #acrostic #nature #forest   Perhaps its no mistake In noting you’re an evergreen Numbers of you gather on Each side of the forest road, pushing through the   Grasses as you do, Reaching high up into the sky of blue Every squirrel in the neighbourhood covets your seeds, and…

  • Tropical Rainforest

    Salford, 26th February 2017 Another original scribble from the pen of inkdrop, wi a little imagery from google….messed about by yours truly #colouryourworld #cyw #tropicalrainforest #poetry #art #nature A place the wild things call home greenery up and down the land from the tiniest of bugs to man’s cousins they all live here co – existing…