Flower Hill Farm Retreat https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com B&B, Retreat, Vacation Rental Flower Hill Farm in Williamsburg MA Western Mass 20 minutes outside of Northampton MA 413-268-7481 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:24:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 183435305 There Is No Place Like Home for the Winter https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/no-place-like-home-for-the-winter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-place-like-home-for-the-winter https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/no-place-like-home-for-the-winter/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:20:19 +0000 https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/?p=7335 During January, February, and the first week of March of last winter, I was surrounded by lovely people, tropical hummingbirds, butterflies, bright flowers, and the Caribbean Sea.  A few days ago, when snow was falling all around Flower Hill Farm Retreat, I was not longing for the beauty and warmth of Treasure Beach, Jamaica.  Being home is inspiring.  The beauty […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/taking-time-to-observe-divided-white-light-2/feed/ 0 5263 Winter Blues ~ Eastern-tailed Blue, Summer Azure and Silvery Blue https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/winter-blues-eastern-tailed-blue-summer-azure-and-silvery-blue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-blues-eastern-tailed-blue-summer-azure-and-silvery-blue https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/winter-blues-eastern-tailed-blue-summer-azure-and-silvery-blue/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:19:00 +0000 http://staging.caroldukephotography.com/winter-blues-eastern-tailed-blue-summer-azure-and-silvery-blue/   Dreaming of Blues fluttering around the garden can shake off the mantle-of-melancholy winter sometimes weaves about our spirits. Today, I gather some delightful, inspiring and tender butterfly encounters, from this past sizzling summer, and toss them on this page of white, that they may bring a ray of light, to warm the inner gardeners […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/winter-blues-eastern-tailed-blue-summer-azure-and-silvery-blue/feed/ 0 5265 A Winter Focus ~ Cedar Waxwing Ornaments and Long Nights Moon https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/a-winter-focus-cedar-waxwing-ornaments-and-long-nights-moon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-winter-focus-cedar-waxwing-ornaments-and-long-nights-moon https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/a-winter-focus-cedar-waxwing-ornaments-and-long-nights-moon/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:37:00 +0000 http://staging.caroldukephotography.com/a-winter-focus-cedar-waxwing-ornaments-and-long-nights-moon/ The nakedness of winter’s landscape can sometimes seem cold and lonely, when suddenly, whoosh, all together in flight, a flash of fluttering life lifts the spirit high towards outermost tips of a beloved Black Cherry tree. Offering light and enchantment to the lucky viewer, a flock, an ‘ear-full’, a ‘museum’ of over sixty Cedar Waxwings […]

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