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To Blossom

"On the Tree of Life 

there are very few flowers in the beginning;

but now,

 the blossom time has come

and all the flowers must turn to fruit."

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi 

 

Just Looking

Is there a book

about how animals and their people

can heal their emotional wounds together?

 

Yes, I see you have got it -

"Your Animal

Your Soul Mirror" 

by Tammy Billups, Bear & Company, Rochester, Vermont

Inner Traditions 2025 

 

I have so many new and deep healing books,

but the Profile page is too full to add more to my list.

 

But I found this

to truly be honest, tender and deeply healing:

"The HEALING PATH, A Memoir and an Invitation"

by the clinical psychologist and Mystic, James Finley.

Orbis Books Mary, New York 10545

Orbis Books. com 

I have read this twice and watched his interviews

and podcast, Turning To the Mystics. 

 
 

Flowers Around Our Earth

 

I always wished to be there,

but we will visually, here and now, walk together.

 

Great gratitude and appreciation

for the beauty, joy, Love and blessings. 

  

All these photos received from David Glenn and Chris Canning,

yesterday, on April 17, 2026.

They are the retiring owners, superb Nursery man and his artist wife,

creators of the Lambley Gardens and Nursery,

in Ascot, Victoria, Australia. 

All of the landscape photos, taken this week, came from them.

 

The fabulous blue 'flowers around the earth' - my language - is 

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Nachtigall’ In German it means 'Nightingale'.

My Dappled Shadow

My dappled shadow

now slowly tracing

through all the changes,

all the new horizons

never seen or experienced,

how to know

how to go,

how to walk the path

when not racing through the sky,

she is the Lovely

dappled sunshine in my autumn life.

 

I ask the question, and we just walk-it, one step at a time. 

Yesterday, I was weeping as I wrote this little poem.

It was her 4th birthday, 

and we were together for 5 hours.

I feel deeply bonded with Lovely, (my name for her)

as she is beautiful, curious, quiet and shy.

 

For 30 day-time hours, over 7 weeks,

she has been my sole companion,

here in my home and garden.

I am being her interim casual foster-carer,

until she is ready to be fully re-homed.

This a quiet, 'safe place'

with the animal spirits of Poppy and Bobby,

growing tree-people and joyful nature spirits.

(Written April 17, 2026)

Blessings Be With You

 

With deepest gratitude for you
for your Love and wisdom
and for friendship, loyalty and mentorship,
honesty and integrity, patience
and especially for truth-telling.
 
I was always inspired by your creativity,
sheer inventiveness, and practicality 
with vision, planning and perspective,
discernment, guidance, humor and goodness.
 
You led the way, with ideas, insights,
fairness, commitment and trustworthiness.
 
It was your kindness, caring, helpfulness,
the resilience, courage and bravery
in so many physical and emotional challenges,
which was always illuminating to me,
who came along to see 
your faithfulness and generosity of spirit.
 
You were always such a good character,
with empathy and perception.
Many friends valued your listening ear,
and you were certainly deeply loved.
 
I wish I called you Dad for longer.
I miss you so farewell for now,
with my warm embrace, 

affection and fondest love. 
May peace and all blessings be with you.

 

 

 

 

  

Sweet Blue Flowers

So forget-me-not my little flowers

sweet lights of blue along the way

let us all be sweet and kind today.

 

Yes I remember you this day 

as these smiling 'weeds' greet me

from a place in long grass beside the lake. 

 

 

 

Come Into My Garden

Welcome Dear Ones,  

these times are strange

and things are not at all the same
but what brings me cheer right here and now
is that these Ixias are flowering.

The colours are most glorious.

I am most grateful that the sun

has come to brighten the hearts of many.

I share this colour,

this wonderful warmth with you

dear friend, wherever you are this day

my heart sends love to you.

 

This Ixias photo with a note to you, came from my blog

Pink Love Shining, posted on November 2, 2020 when it was springtime.

See my Profile to go to my other blogs.

 

Now, it is the last day of Summer, here in The Adelaide Hills,

where there is drought and long heat waves.

I will be writing in these coming days as we start Autumn.

Peace and Love to you

Bee 

 

 

Oh Hello Kookaburra

Oh Hello Kookaburra,

visiting our local tree and just previously

greeting this morning so merrily.

 

Are you here to awaken the new day

and to highlight improvements along the way.

Seems to me to be,

a lovely sign to say, 'Keep Going',

while you welcome more potential

by always looking to the bright side. 

 

Photos by a city jogger: DKG  

 

Golden Flowers For You

May each day be gentle.

May your light shine for all others

with just the glorious goodness of you.

 

With my deep appreciation, love and blessings

I give to you these golden flowers.  

 

Photo: SJ - yellow roses in a street garden 
 

The Gnomes Know The Way

How good is this?

A clean new path

where there is no litter in the grass.

It is a call to walk upon

all that's been and all that's gone

as all the rains have washed it clean

and life is as enticing as it has always been.

 

So here we go along our way.

The morning light is welcoming

and wherever we go there we are

and whatever we call echoes back

so yes,

let's just keep going along this track.

 

All is well without a map

one step and then the next

view the pictures and skip the text,

life is calling and the sky is bright

evening comes before the night.

 

The gnomes with me

are happily singing songs

to keep the pace and move along

so we all arrive before the day is gone.

 

Just look around and know the way

every one has a guide

and as this year unfolds 

many surprises will arrive

so just keep on breathing to stay alive. 

 

Photo Credit: Justin Walker, Trash Free Trails,

18/12/2025, Australian Geographic
 

Hello Bee

'Oh Hello Bee',  said the little bee

as it landed on the blue chicory flower.

'Oh Joy, how wonderful is this!

We have flowers this year,

after some seasons without reasons,

when these herbal plants disappeared.' 

 

'Previously, we counted the petals

to follow the time of day.

The numbers were different on each flower,

and some flowers would even close for a sleep.

This colour is so glorious.

Today there are only a few blooms

I will call tomorrow.

I think I will ask for a flower message,

so there is more we may come to know.

Fly on little bee',  I said.

 

Just a note to mention:

'Chicory is the flower of assimilation."

The flowers of Chicory open at 7am and close at midday. 

I See The Trees

I see the trees and the trees see me:

It is very much in the heart of me

to live in the midst of the nature I see. 

 

Brightly Quietly Softly Fade Away

Seasons pass or only days
and as I sit,

the soft petals fall,
the best friends
pass over the sun again,
old acquaintances disappear 
on vanishing paths.
My soul stays,

showing my way,
decades fade, eras long gone, 
where the jade was at my door,
sustaining rice fields, earth trodden floor.

Mystical life, I just admire
carpets of cherry upon the wood.
I am happiest here
though I know I could
fade away
on any day.

This is a re-post, of my sitting five days with peonies,

which was written and posted, on November 19, 2018

Bless Your Kind Heart

A year ago, this day was hot and sunny.

I left the cafe feeling bilious.

I walked home, a short way.

I was very breathless.

I went through my front door.

Everything was spinning.

I was trembling, then really shaking. 

I swallowed spoonfuls of organic honey.

It was a birthday gift.

I must unlock the door. 

I must call the ambulance.

Where's my phone?

Was this life gone?

 

I was unconscious for almost 4 hours.

The summer heat was all around.

I did not move at all.

My body was still.

I slowly opened my eyes.

Still. I was still.

There was white light,

and then, a truly bright 'rainbow bridge'. 

 

I was mesmerized.

Yet I knew I was alive. 

Anaphylaxis. Untreated. 3.55 hours. 

I was lifted. I survived.  

 

I kept saying to myself:

"Oh thank you God, thank you God

Bless your kind heart.

Bless your kind heart." 

 

I felt out of my life for weeks, even months.

Now, December 2025, I am having medical tests.

What internal shocks, happened in my body?  

Photo: Delphinium, Candle Larkspurs, Lambley Nursery.

 
 

And Light Will Shine

The gold, it's true is inside you,

the well it sits within,

so draw your life's flow

from the bubbling stream

and light will shine

and leaves will gleam

and flowers are the gifts for you,

petals soft and colours rich

this is the way of natures gifts.

 

Bring yourself the gems there are

and share the light from every star

and live the way your heart knows true

so being yourself is healing you.

 

- from The Light Within - by Bee Porteous

Written in October 2014, and posted again

on Come Blossom Come Fruit, November 16,2024 

The wonderfully fragrant heart bells, in my garden,

Mexican Philadelphus, Mock Orange

  

 

 

Bless My Soul. A Beginning Day

'Bless my soul', I hear me say,

'this is a beginning day'.

So many questions have been

silently waiting for heavenly answers.

 

So much so, 

that I was outside each day

with the flowers and birds

accepting the quiet hard work,

knowing, that I did not know what,

but I did know that,

whatever tension was rising

would become truly helpful 

in releasing my previous past patterns

that had 'got me through my life',

being calm and quiet through strife.

 

Now I am living in more mystical ways.

It is another time.

So I live deeply with my heart knowing

how to listen to the tension 

that is no longer mine,

but it is my time to respond

and to release and know,

the soul blessing that flows 

when disharmony goes.

 

This is post 752 here,

and it was just after the previous post no 751 which was titled:

Where Have I Been? 

 

Where Have I Been?

Where have I been?

It has been 4 weeks since my last post 

and at times I was sitting

with the Pink-flowering Tea-Tree.

Questions and answers come to me.

I wish I could say I was floating along

but sometimes I was trembling or numb, 

sometimes pain, often grief,

but always a deep belief

that where I am

and where I may go

is where I am being with the unknown

and within me

I know I am always in the right place.

 

These days the right place

may feel like I deeply know I am not alone

and yet,

the triggered part of my muscles and structure

wonder if my quiet way of 'calm and cheerful',

does sometimes come to closed doors.

 

I would like to share these words  

by Kate Van Horn, In My Story.

I find them enormously helpful.

 

"Thank you for never giving up on me"

I said.

 

"You're very welcome"

I replied.

 

And that is my story too 

The World / Wholeness, the ability to see the big picture.

 

With Love Bee xo 

 

 

So Glorious So Golden

"In you is all of Heaven.

Every leaf that falls is given life in you.

Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you.

And every flower that ever bloomed

has saved its perfume

and its loveliness for you."

 

A Course In Miracles Text-25.IV

Foundation for Inner Peace

 

Image: Australian Native Frangipani, 

Hymenosporum flavum Pittosporaceae

so gloriously fragrant in my garden today. 

 
 

Breath Of Heaven

 

As I sit with you

gazing deeply into your golden nest

we are embraced by soft pink gentleness

 

I see your warm light shining.

  

I breathe ever so slowly

as my long exhale

helps you through the veil

 

and we feel the joy

when your uplifting fragrance rises

as this beautiful 'breath of heaven' 

 

You are the Breath of Heaven

 

October 25, 2025, sitting in the garden with Golden Diosma,

and sitting by the bedside, of my dear dying friend, who is in 

a hospice room, 670 kilo-metres away.

Blessings and peace, With love, Bee xo  

 

 

With Reverence

 

"What you encounter,

 recognize or discover,

depends to a large degree

upon the quality of your approach,

so when we approach with reverence,

great things

 decide to approach us." 

 

John O'Donohue 

 

This beautiful little sleeping creature

is an Australian ant-eater,

Brown Antichinus (Antechinus stuartii)

 

July 6, 2016, Australian Geographic Magazine 

Image: Pete Evans/shutterstock 

The Cloud of Forgetting

We dream with the ears

we dream with the tears

and through the years

we feel the toxic shame that came

and we learn again,

as through the centuries:

 

it comes so it does

to go where it must,

and it is up to us to trust

it is not ours to keep,

so we must let it go,

and sleep the long sleep in peace.

 
After the longest drive through life,

we arrive in a safe place of grace

Surrendering all

to pure hope and Love 

now there is peace beneath

the shame that came,

and joy shines in to bring

the cloud of forgetting. 

 

Written on the Winter Solstice of June 22, 2023 

BP photo: Forget-me-nots blooming September 30, 2025

 

Embracing The Divine

I have been loving

I have been strong

I have absorbed as I went along.

I have gathered strength

from the unseen

the spiritual

the tree people

animal spirits and the devic ones.

I have become lighter

and I call higher for support

to lift me above,

to trust, to hope I am good enough.

And Spirit sees me calling high,

devoting time and embracing the Divine.

 

Written August 8, 2022