If I were a moose and you were a cow
Would you love me anyhow?
Would you introduce me to your folks
Would you tell your friends, "No moose jokes!"
If I were a moose and you were a cow
Would you invite me to your club
And risk a cruel bovine snub
Would you lead me down the receiving line
And boldly boast, "This moose is mine!"
Would your parents watch us graze
Shake their heads, "It's just a phase"
Or would they thank the stars above
Their precious heifer's found her love?
Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
As the deer panteth for the water,
So my soul longeth after you.
You alone are my hearts desire
And I long to worship you.
You alone are my strength, my shield.
To you alone may my spirit yield.
You alone are my hearts desire
And I long to worship you.
Percy the puny poinsettia
Is hanging his bloom in dismay
If they had just kept him wetta
He'd be a houseplant today
Folks liked the other plants betta
Now he's alone on the shelf
Even a plant with no uncle or aunt
Shouldn't spend Christmas Day by himself
Holiday shoppers would stop by the counter
And pick up a plant to take home
Until one by one all his friends were adopted
And Percy was left all alone
We're flowers, you and I.
We share a light.
I need you.
We're Orchids.
But I long to love you like flowers do
Just to feel your sweet perfume
I want you.
We're Orchids.
Will we never get to be?
Will I ever get to be?
Will I ever get to feel you in me?
The seeds lie unaltered
But on some planet, on some other moon.
We bloom still.
I love you.
We're Orchids.
This is 1,100 pounds of cranberries laid out in a shallow fountain pool...
Inside the conservatory...this is the main building and it is huge and always breathtaking, no matter what time of year.
Just outside the gates of the gardens, there is an old Quaker meeting house (Longwood Progressive Meeting of Friends) with a cemetary. This very old grave is being displaced by a old tree. The grave stone was just about illegible - the year of death was 1858 - I think. More on the meeting house can be found here.
A couple videos for you to enjoy:
Music, lights and cascades of water. I don't know if you can hear the music.
Inside the conservatory there are waterfalls and turning Christmas trees. You might hear the waterfalls.
14 comments:
I LOVE the wicker moose and the other creatures..... love em, that place really looks like the bees knees and a great place to visit....
I really should make more use of all the fasinating places around here, maybe come the spring, it was a tough year last year for getting out and about, lets see what this spring brings, after all, people from all over the country and the world even come to Southern England on holiday...... fools LOL
I hope your resting that shoulder of yours...
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It sure looks like a wonderful place to visit, no matter what time of year you go.
Yes, I could hear the music in the first video and the waterfalls in the second. Cool stuff.
Have a good day today.
What an enjoyable start to my day. The conservatory is amazing. And your silly prose put a huge smile on my face. You seem to have a way of doing that. *shakes my head at Percy the puny poinsettia* I have a lonely poinsetia someone put in my office. The videos were nice. *hugs* hope PT is getting easier.
How nice! Looks like a great place to visit and the videos were very nice. Have a great day Iggy *hugs*
ps........ I would of been tempted to of done a belly flop into the pond of cranberries and see how many I could of eaten :).... but then Im just a greed old cow LOL
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the wicker moose is so cute...love all the photos..thanks for sharing
Beautiful!
For some reason I really like the cranberries in the fountain.
That tree.....would draw me like those ones in Tennessee did...
Oh Iggy, this post had me in stitches! The pictures were really nice, but the prose underneath them is what was the most entertaining. Between the moose/cow love story, the panting deer, the puny poinsettia, and us Orchids, I couldn't stop laughing!
I love the music in the first video, that instrumental version of Sleigh Ride is what I hear all the time, and whenever I hear it I have to do the whip crack in unison with the music. Yeah, I'm weird!
A few years ago, my cousin's daughter (first cousin once removed) got married at the Conservatory in St. Paul. It was beautiful inside, but we had to stand, and despite the a/c inside, it was about 95F outside.
Moose are my favorite, or are they called Meese? I LOVE the Moose poem too.
Beautiful pictures and video.
Great post Iggy, as always. :)
I love the prose and the pics!
Those wicker beasties are really cool!
By the way, you need to pop on over to my blog. I left you a little somethin' somethin' over there you will want to pick up!
They have really nice Christmas decorations from what I can see from your beautiful photos. I want to go again, but not at $16 (I think that's what I paid) for each visit. If I lived somewhere near, I would buy membership.
Can't wait for the holiday season (or before) to get back to Longwood Gardens! It is so beautiful!
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