700. And in the woods a fragrance rare of wild azaleas fills the air as they flutter in their gaudy gowns… ~Edited line by Dora Read Goodale

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Fair nature’s priestesses! to whom,
In hieroglyph of bud and bloom,
Her mysteries are told;
Who wise in lore of wood and mead,
The seasons’ pictured scrolls can read,
In lessons manifold!
~Excerpted lines from a poem by
John Greenleaf Whittier

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Azaleas – whitest of white!
White as the drifted snow
Fresh-fallen out of the night,
Before the coming glow.
Tinges the morning light;
When the light is like the snow,
White,
And the silence is like the light:
Light, and silence, and snow, –
All – white!
White as an embodied hush;
A very rapture of white;
A wedlock of silence and light:
White, white as the wonder undefiled
Of Eve just wakened in Paradise;
Nay, white as the angel of a child
That looks into God’s own eyes!
~Excerpted lines from a poem by
Harriet McEwen Kimball

Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. ~Ecclesiastes 9:8   ✝

**As you can see from the photo my white azaleas, though very, very, white indeed, do have a bit of a pink in their freckles especially as the age.

24 thoughts on “700. And in the woods a fragrance rare of wild azaleas fills the air as they flutter in their gaudy gowns… ~Edited line by Dora Read Goodale”

  2. It will be a couple of weeks for us, but some things are beginning. God is showing his Face everywhere around us, if we only open our eyes and look. As usual, you speak to me again, with your words and photos, and I happily drown in God’s glory. Have a peaceful weekend. Hugs, Angie

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      • Thanks Natalie. Some of the trees are blooming, and there are a few flowers, the sun is shining, God’s in His heaen and all is right with the world. What more could a person ask for.

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  4. That is a lovely poem. I wish they would grow here, but no one I know of or talked too, has been successful getting them to take around here.

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