Lavender

... filled with Provençal organically grown lavender,

just to bring a whiff of summer, a remembrance of warmth into the house, home, mind and heart.

In these lines below the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

finds the loveliest words for this:

Auch das ist Kunst, 

ist Gottes Gabe, 

aus ein paar sonnenhellen Tagen 

sich so viel Licht ins Herz zu tragen, 

dass, wenn der Sommer längst verweht, 

das Leuchten immer noch besteht. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749 - 1832)

  

Leaves

These Leaves here found their places as a coaster,

 or as bookmarks,

one landed on a greeting card.

The books shown here are very lovely ones:

The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, Bloomsbury, 2019

Blumen, 40 Meisterwerke von Dürer bis Dalí, von Celia Fisher, Reimer, 2012

January Star

 

"Bare branches of each tree

on this chilly January morn

look so cold so forlorn.

Gray skies dip ever so low

left from yesterday's dusting of snow.

Yet in the heart of each tree

waiting for each who wait to see

new life as warm sun and breeze will blow,

like magic, unlock springs sap to flow,

buds, new leaves, then blooms will grow."

-  Nelda Hartmann, January Morn 

 

"To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June."

-  Jean-Paul Sartre

I found these two lovely quotes here:

http://www.gardendigest.com/monjan.htm#Quotes

I wish you will have a sparkling, very joyful New Year!