A spread of white daisies with yellow centers amid frilly greenery and long thin stems.

A purple salvia plant in bloom. Mass of pointed green leaves at the bottom and sprays of tiny purple flower clusters rising above the leaves.

A mass of golden yellow wallflowers with thin pointed green leaves and clusters of small gold four-petaled blooms. There is a tiny but perfectly formed spider web nestled among the leaves.

Close up of two creamy white miniature rose blooms amid pointed green leaves with serrated edges.

Been neglecting the garden report but there is lots happening! Here are some slightly blurry photos as the wind is blowing like nobody's business today. Daisies, salvia, wallflowers, roses in addition to evening primrose, blanket flowers, sweet william, and red clover all blooming now 🌱

Very light pink peony bloom just on the verge of fully opening.

Peony blooms are getting ready to pop 🌱

#vss365 #poetry

I wonder
What the aroma of you be…
Musky strong mythical Adonis
Sandlewood tobacco dreamer
Leather and grease oiled biker

This some kind of idol I see
What would the wafting breeze
Beneath sapphire skies
Above meadows #jade gem green
Bring to me, I wonder

behind the face hides
the #trickery of gesture
answers are kept
where no word dares to rest
speech grows heavy
with what it refuses
forgets or withholds
until even truth
once spoken
turns slowly
into betrayal

#vss365 #poetry #blueskypoets 🖼️ Pinterest

clouds perfect voltige
soft #trickery of voyage
wings hold the azure

#vss365 #haiku #poetry #blueskypoets #nature #photography

Lovely Bethany 💜💛

Guns N' Roses - November Rain YouTube video by GunsNRosesVEVO

#FromOneLine 413

I remember blueberries
precariously balanced
on my stomach

while November Rain
pursed wistful notes
from that old stereo
onto our beaded skin,

caring not that it was summer
and the only cold
was the first touch of blue
on your tongue.

#amlistening

youtu.be/8SbUC-UaAxE?...

A band of #jade rests against Nora's wrist, the bracelet her mother once wore. Its weight is heavy. She pictures her mother moving through her day with it just like this, catching the same light, feeling the same smooth curve, living her ordinary moments with it close.

#vss365

#Jade glints in dust as if the earth just remembered its own beauty

#vss365 #monoku

#Jade eyes staring deep
Lost in calm serenity
May this moment last
#vss365 #haiku #poetry

Rory toured Esme around the #jade surroundings. Ornaments and trinkets of all kinds, all made from the same substance.

It was a very strange horde for a dragon, but you never could tell with the creatures in the game. Sometimes they did weird stuff for the fun of it, others for a purpose.

#vss365

Magpie manoeuvred under the #jade skies of the planet, heading to a secret rendezvous with an old smuggler acquaintance that, supposedly had some vital information that she would only give over to Dylan.

She was a strange one, though. Could be something, could just be her insanity. Again.

#vss365

let's meet come evenfall
embracing in celestial love
as aurora jade swirls
~unfold~
to sapphire skies
& a cascade of moon whispers
watch stars pirouette
like javelins of light
where just for this moment
just for this night
our two astral hearts
will beat as one

#vss365 #jade
#poetry
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The main characters of Journey to the West: the Monkey King, the Jade Dragon, the pig demon, the sand demon, and the Longevity Monk.

It's April 21, 2026, and today's mythology-inspired #vss365 #prompt is #jade! Like the Jade dragon from Journey to the West.

This culturally defining Ancient Chinese epic features a wonderfully colorful main cast, helmed by the wonderfully rebellious Monkey King!

i wrote a piece of poetry
of how we used to be
reminiscing about
my wildflower heart
getting lost
within the layers of you,
nights of breathless sighs,
our last blissful dance
'neath vespertine skies,
& how when letting go hurt
shattering my forlorn soul
the day you said goodbye.

#moonmystic

I hope you find a place to retreat in this crazy world.

between the shadows of the night
retreats the light of her soul,
dancing alone
to the melody of the moonsong,
casting a wish
upon the starry pool of dreamers'
for his devotion
to bestow no trickery,
but to warm her heart
to embrace her heart
to love her...

just to love her.

#vss365 #trickery

Book cover for Wren's Aria by Helen Whistberry showing a bright-eyed brown wren perched among bright red poppies and green grass with beak open in song.

TODAY IS THE DAY!

My latest book, Wren's Aria, is out in the world!

A charming animal fantasy wherein open hearts and loyal companions triumph over tyranny and needless cruelty. Includes 52 original illustrations and cover art by me!

Full blurb and buying links in comments below

#WrensAria #sff

#vss365

#Undersea deep,vast swaths of nothingness,or so it seems,elastic furrows of languid #Cephalopods roam,tentacles entwined in a kiss of death.Twirled air bubbles float as they scuttle in caves of flora
&fauna.Chasms entrap the lonely hunters in viscous, eternal waters

Black and white photo of sunlight reflecting across a still ocean.

Dreams,
sculpted in #seafoam,
see how they fall?

Not gone,
only roaming
portless
blue silence

tiny explorers,
in search of that
new world.

#vss365
#poem
#poetry
#blueskypoets

📷 Pixabay

Rock River last week:

#Illinois #river

blue bird perched with a blue sly behind the blue and reddish brown bird

Eastern Bluebird from this week. This male was guarding a nest, which was a hollowed out tree branch the had fallen along the Rock river in IL:

#birds #bluebird

Beautiful colors in the sky at sunset In Minnesota .

Beautiful colors in the sky at sunset in Minnesota
#Sunset

My poem ~ Catherine Beavis ©️ . they waited patiently watching sunlight dancing on the water glittering joy making the waves glow as the cerulean seafoam gently caressed their toes, they waited patiently as the sun dipped behind the horizon kissing the ocean goodnight whilst dappled apricot clouds painted the deep azure light, they waited patiently for the sparkly celestial canopy to beautifully blanket their crepuscular time where they then cast their wishes upon the starry starry skies to be forever embracing by one another's side. @CatherineBeavis .

#FromOneLine No.412
~ 'They waited patiently'
#vss365 #seafoam
#poetry #poem

daybreak solitude
among nocturnal remnants
#calm without a cause

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetry #blueskypoets #nature #photography #dawn

Night cherry blossoms

Constant in its drift, day ebbs.

#7syllablesentence #drift #blueskypoets #blueskyphotographs #photography #adriatic #sunset

Honeyed sun thins, forms push back.

#7syllablesentence #honey #blueskypoets #nature #photography #sunset

Undersea stones deliver their slow memories into the tide

#vss365 #monoku

Laughing wrinkles
when the body remembers joy
just as deeply as anything else