is like a brilliant field of new spring flowers,
filled with creative, talented, intelligent people, with open, searching minds, who are kind and supportive, rooting for each other.
A field chock full of productive people who use their unique talents in individual ways to contribute, to try and make a better world.
A community that spans countries, continents, religions and viewpoints, composed of individuals adding their light to an often dark world.
You are a blessing everyday to so many, including me. It was time to pause, and express my gratitude for being part of you.
Non-bloggers may not understand the depth of our individual and community connection. Hopefully, they might start a blog and find out for themselves, if not, it is their loss.
I picked these photos and flowers in honor of you, and our community.
Thank you for being you! Cheers to you and long may you blog~
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You always seem to recognize the right moment to make me smile Cindy! The gems you share can leave one breathless! Hugs and blessings my !
The feeling is, as you well know Wendell, more than mutual. Be well my dear friend~ <3
Wow … I’m early. The flowers are a great sign of spring for all. For us, we saw 1 daffodil opened today … and one tree full of blooms. It’s coming!
It is! It is! And we have actually had rain! 🙂 <3
Cheers to your rain!
It’s been raining here cats, dogs, goats and elephants!!! We surely need it here in Calif., huh Cindy???
Yes. I have never just stood under a patio cover watching the rain for so long!! Wonderful!
Your words and pictures are beautiful Cindy! It’s wonderful to read your posts and see the world through your eyes. Blessings for a continuing rich experience with your writing and the many friendships you have nurtured through your sharing and receiving of kindness and support.
Your friend,
Jan♡
Friends like you are the reason blogging has become a piece of my <3. Hugs to you my friend~
This is a superbly beautiful salute to and embrace of this amazing WP family we’ve all come to love. Their r such wonderful spirits here and we all give and learn so much from each other. These pics express these feelings far better than words ever could..but I truly love both mediums..goddess bless u all🙏🏼😇👼🏼
Yes!! I truly never in my wildest imagination could have ever have pictured the beauty of this international blogging community. Such kindred souls reaching out to each across distance and culture, finding deep communion and support for each other. Truly a beautiful community that I feel so fortunate to have stumbled on. Hugs to you my friend~
I’m right on your page sister!! And bigger hugs to u, my sweet friend
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Beautiful post… thank you…
(However, no flower for me 🙁 the rafflesia … in honour of my ability to stink up the blogosphere.. hehe)…
I see flowers springing up all around you, nodding their faces towards yours~
Prophecy or curse.. that remains to be seen :D.. will they stand up and accuse me of being outre.. or will they even think I am sacrificing them so that I can grow myself… or will it be a true spring… ? One in which everyone will bloom equally…
I am so confused.. I don’t know what kind of flower I am anymore.. and you know, Cindy, never mind this faux-philosophy 😀 I am just being incoherent…
Let us hope that this spring brings hope for us all.. I hope, sincerely..
Thank you for your kindness and the warmth of your words.. I truly appreciate it.. maybe I do not do justice to them either by replying flippantly. Just feeling a little more worthless than I was before.. haha…
You do justice to yourself whenever you speak your truth, even more so when it is complicated or confusing, what you refer to as incoherent. People’s truth has a ring to it, the flippancy, the anger, all the surface stuff falls away, when the truth comes out. Nothing wrong with flippancy, anger, it’s just the stuff below it is more real. I hope that there is a hopeful spring for all of us, but like you, I see the world, and doubt it too.
Thank you for responding with your honest confusion. I appreciate your courage and intelligence, and your worth and dignity.
Keep on shining~
Hear Hear Cindy > Great post. I think the feeling of togetherness on WP is awesome. Oh and thanks for starting my Sunday off with such colour. 🙂
Who knew? Certainly not me, that one could get to know people so well, and become so connected to this unexpected community. It is a life force of it’s own. Happy Sunday Andy~
Cheers Cindy. For years I always felt that the internet was a dangerous and negative place. How wrong I was 🙂
I was just like you, and so many parts of it are, but not our community! <3
Just amazing precision,Cindy !!!
Beautiful color and beautiful shots
Awww, thank you my dear friend and be well~
Wow! Thank you Cindy. You are an amazing part of this community. Thank you for being you!
Visa versa 2 U!
Cool! Be blessed!
Beautiful, kind, and true!
Yes!! We are blessed~
Cindy,
You are what makes a community. You take us to unique places in Europe and in ‘The Holler.’ I also see that you take the time to answer each and every comment on your blog. That takes a lot of time and (I was going to say a lot of effort, but no) a lot of dedication to your readers. You are one in a million. I hope we never lose you from the blogosphere. Be good and feed a few critters for my sweetheart and I.
Wally
You were one of my first blogging friends Wally and you are one of my dearest still. We have been through some good and some sad times together my friend. I send you and your beautiful wife my love and friendship, always. <3
Thank you, Cindy, for all the beauty you bring to our world 🙂
And visa versa 2 U X 2! <3
You outdid yourself here Cindy. In this case a picture of flowers is worth one thousand words. Our community is as unique as each blossom, but together the garden we create is even lovelier than the sum of its parts.
Cheers to WordPress and the magic of blogging.
much love,
Linda
So very true Linda, and I know you, as a clinician like myself, have been surprised by this incredible community we have lucked on to. Sometimes life and people can be so good! Love to you Linda and all the best my friend~
thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures and very kind words, and you are exactly the kind of person our community loves )
That is because it is an awesome community composed of incredible people who would never have met each other in everyday life. It’s like we tossed our selves into the cybersphere with our fingers crosses, and untold wonders came flying back at us! I am so grateful. Hugs to you~
Great photographs of a much greater work!
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Darwin, could you explain the origin of that beauty?
Some questions are unanswerable and some things unknowable. All I know is that all of us together are a force for good and I am so fortunate to be a part of it. <3 <3
I heartily second what Wally said above! You are one of a kind and bring such beauty and joy to our lives, Cindy! <3
It is a fully mutual, reinforcing phenomona, I send back what I receive from friends like you Teresa.! <3
If only the real world can be as lovely and harmonious as the one we inhabit here in our little blogging world.
I so agree with you, but least we make our own harmonious world and we both get to be part of it!
Yes!
Thank you for the beautiful words and pictures Cindy!
Thank you for being such a beautiful part of our community of blogging friends Maiko~ <3
What a remarkable and lovely expression of gratitude for this WP community we have all come to love. You always do this with grace, style and beauty. Thanks for that, Cindy. 💕
You inspire me and I feel the mutual regard and affection flying over space right into my heart~ <3
Beautiful post and photographs. I do love irises. They are my favorite flowers. I have around 125 different colors and varieties on my property. Thanks for the memory
They are exquisite aren’t they. I love them and they multiply which I love even more!
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Our world, our lives, would be more beautiful if more people saw the beauty possible in the world and not so often just seeking something to hate.
Very beautiful pictures, thank you for posting them up for the rest of us to get a chance to see this beauty also. Hope you don’t mind but I just re-blogged it, give others a chance to see that prettiness also.
I am honored and touched. Thank you. It took a long time for me to articulate my feelings, but my feelings for our community and the good that I see here everyday, finally had to be expressed. It is a wonderful world to be a part of. Thank you my friend and cheers to you~
These are very pretty flowers Cindy. 🙂
Thank you dear Ranu and cheers too~
Thank you, Cindy, for this beautiful tribute to our collective community. I have to agree, non-bloggers don’t know what they are missing! <3
They don’t. It’s like Pythagorus trying explain the world is round to the flat earth society. They think it isn’t real because they haven’t experienced it. It’s kind of nice. It makes it our unique world.
You’re probably right. Even among blogs, I think WP is the best of the best!
What a lovely post. Thank you and I too am so grateful to have you and your spectacular photography as part of the blogging community. 🙂
We are blessed, us bloggers! 🙂
Your flower photos bring Spring, almost overwhelmingly. And what you say about blogging is so true. I sit and wonder, sometimes, just why…how can it be that human connection with persons you’ve never actually met can be so intense and gratifying? Are we after all more spirit than body? At any rate, I am like you, every day glad for all of us who have found each other in this special way!
Yes, you are poet. You understand well that deep human connection can occur solely through the written word, but you can’t actually interact with the poets you read, unless of course, you both happen to blog! <3
There are many aspects unique to blogging that make for a deeper connection than you have with someone you may see regularly but superficially, in the non-virtual world, in that bloggers share with each other the deep creative aspects of themselves. Out of this grows conversation, discussions about thoughts, feelings, life events, whatever is on someone's mind. You do this over time, and you get to know a different side of people. They become your virtual friends and I posit that these friendships although different than what we are used to, can be as rewarding as any friendship.
It is a new virtual world and I embrace it because it builds connections and bonds between people across all sorts of previously unsurmountable divides. You and I for example, would never have met, or made a connection were it not for blogging.
Long may you blog Cynthia~
PS- I had to come back later and add, yes miraculously we are all essentially spirit, something that was never acknowledged in the smart family I grew up in.
It’s so good not to be limited by the past…or our memories of it. We have today… in whatever its richness,…and maybe tomorrow, too!
Wow awesome flowers!!! I especially love the one with the Bee! Hello Spring! Hugz Lisa and Bear
Hugz back to you two and I hope Bear is being careful not to step on your sore foot~
Beautiful photos and lovely words. I have felt the same way about the blogging community. Kind people pursuing some very interesting interests!
Yes a wonderful gift for those of us lucky enough to join in!
It is a lovely bouquet indeed, Cindy.
Leslie
So deserved by such a special community~
We are a great community, aren’t we?
Leslie
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Fabulous Cindy – my sentiments exactly!
It’s hard to articulate it isn’t it, especially when there are nattering non-blogging nabobs about, saying virtual connections are dangerous or “not real.” They really don’t know what they are talking about.
Very well said, Cindy. And everyone blooms, each in their own way. 🙂
They do indeed and bloggers are finding their way!
Well done and said Cindy! It seems you and I were on a similar wavelength tonight. I’m just so thrilled and thankful for all the amazing people I’ve come to know through my blog. Thank you so much for being one of them! Your photos are always amazing and bless me so much with their beauty and your caring and compassion do the same. Love and hugs, Natalie 🙂 <3
Yep, I hear the truth resonating from you Natalie, and it doesn’t suprise me at all that we are on the same wave length. We are all blessed to have the opportunity to know each other. You suprise and impress me at times with the depth, courage and sensitivity of your postings. You keep on shining Natalie. <3
Awwww how sweet of you Cindy! We shall shine on together my friend! 😊❤️😘
We do indeed and trust you to understand. <3
How radiant! Where is that flower shop (2nd one from the top)? I’ve never seen one that’s literally covered with flowers everywhere (overhanging, etc.) before.
This is a beautiful tribute to all the various bloggers out there – unique in style and personality. What a wonderful thought. Thank you Cindy! <3
You are example of a person I feel closely connected to Lynn, so thank you my friend. That second photo was an outdoor flower shop in Amsterdam. I was going to do a whole post on Amsterdam Flower shops, but I stole some of the photos for this post. The Dutch do their flowers like no one else in the world. Be well my friend~
Gorgeous pictures, Cindy. Long may you blog too. 🙂
Blessings ~ Wendy
Visa versa 2 U X 2!
awesome pictures Cindy…:-)
Merci beaucoup mon ami~
Beautiful post and the pictures make me yearn for blooming flowers now.
I can well imagine. Hold on, they are on their way!
beautiful Cindy, lovely!!!!
Mille grazie~
So beautiful. The catching of the bee flying is so stunning.
He is a bee on a mission!! 😉
Oh, Cindy. This post is so beautiful. Thank you, my dear blogger-friend. I am glad we are part of the same community.
Yes, I am too. Grateful~ <3
Gorgeous, Cindy. Love the photos and the note.
So glad you do and cheers too!
This is so sweet. I feel like a flower 🙂 Beautiful sentiments and photos, Cindy. It is an amazing community. I had no idea when I started that I would feel connected to people all around the world, some whose names I don’t even know.
You are a beautiful flower in our blogging garden. I had no idea at all that blogging would open the door to such an incredible group of people, as you say from all over the world. What a wonderful gift~
I had no idea either. It was a wonderful surprise 🙂
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Oh, this is beautiful Cindy. Not just the gorgeous flowers but the sentiment behind it. I love being part of this wonderful community 🙂
Yes! I know exactly how you feel! We are lucky~ <3
Your wording is wonderful and the photographs are perfect Cindy. It’s a fantastic community full of new growth all the time but which grows closer with each passing season.
Wishing you a wonderful new week.
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
Being part of it all is a wonderful life suprise and you are so right, continuous growth. Thanks for understanding David~
Well said. Flowers are beautiful, as are your photographs of them.
You are a lovely virtual friend John~
Gorgeous pics! OMG😍😍
Intended for your kind heart! <3
I’m bedazzled! ♡ლ❀‿❀ლ♡
I am so happy to make you smile! 🙂 ♡ლ❀‿❀ლ♡ 🙂
Thank you for your generosity and warm feelings, Cindy. ^-^
Thank you for being part of the caring community & happy Sunday my friend~
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Cindy Knoke with a wonderful array of floral images in celebration of our blogging community. Thanks Cindy and delighted to be part of your United Nations.
It is our United Nations and we all do a rocking job! Cheers to you my very dear Sally~ <3
Dear Cindy, your blog brought me great joy. What beautiful floral pictures. We are living in such a beautiful world. You truly take the best pictures. Hugs! Veraiconica
Your presence always makes me smile Veraiconica. Be well my friend~
Thank you Cindy, wishing you a nice sunday, we are having spring rain. A nice reading day! Hugs! Veraiconica
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Ah, that’s so lovely Cindy, such stunning flowers, my favourite is the last one with the bee… long may you blog too …. wherever would we be without our blogs?
It would be a loss for us wouldn’t it. Blogging is a communication enhancer and for this alone it is invaluable. Happy Sunday!
Yes so true. Happy Sunday to you too Cindy. 🙂
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