Four Seasons with Jodi – Exploring Color

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With Jodi’s kind permission I’m sharing some of my favourite posts from her fantastic blog, of which you could say that I’m a devoted follower. If you enjoy beauty, art and inspiration (not to mention mouth-watering food recipes) then Jodi’s blog simply has it all! I feel honoured that Jodi so generously allows me to […]

I was so honored by this beautiful post created by Liz at Exploring Color, I had to share.  Thank you my sweet friend Liz from the other side of the world in New Zealand!

I hope you enjoy this beautiful post she created about the Four Seasons from my blog.   My heart is so touched.  I hope you will check out her lovely blog.

Four Seasons with Jodi

Autumn

I’m starting with Autumn because this recent post of Jodi’s prompted me to do ‘Four Seasons with Jodi’. It touched my heart…

Let the Rain Fall

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Goldfinch in the Rain – Autumn, Mars, PA

I watched you as you sat proud and beautiful
while the rain fell on and around you.

You didn’t need
the sun to make you shine.

In fact,
you stood out even brighter in the cloudy drizzle.

And I was reminded
true beauty comes from within.

It can’t be soaked or drenched
or washed off.

It can’t be dampened or doused
by the storms of life.

Let the rain fall.
Let the storms crash.

And continue to shine
your authentic beautiful self.

Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi

Link for original post:  Let the Rain Fall

Winter

Snowy Pines Watercolor

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Winter Snowy Pine Reflections Watercolor – 11×14 140lb cold press

Is anything crazier or more unpredictable than the weather?!

Where I live, we went from record highs one week
to record lows the next.

From open windows and shorts and bare feet –
to snow flurries and wool socks and sweaters.

And one cold day I painted this winter scene
(inspired by a photo I saw that I cannot find credit for).

It’s funny how the cold scene
gives me a warm feeling.

Almost as crazy as the weather!

Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi

Link for original post:  Snowy Pines Watercolor

Spring

A Brief Visit

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The Old Dogwood Trees’ Blossoms

Your visit is so brief….
but your memory lingers,

and it is ceremoniously revived
each Spring when you surprise me yet again.

Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi

Link for original post:  A Brief Visit

Summer

A Bumble Bee Named Buzz

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Buzz the Bumble Bee 8×10 Watercolor 140lb Saunders Cold Press

On the edge of a meadow lives a bumble bee named Buzz.
He lives near his aunt and his uncle and his cuz.

Aunt Sally, Uncle Sam, and Sherman they was.
They love Buzz more than any other in Americas.

Sherman and Buzz love to play and dance because
It is what all the bumble bees in the meadow does.

So if you see dancing bees and think your eyes are a fuzz,
don’t be surprised if it’s Sherman and Buzz.

Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi

Link for original post:  A Bumble Bee Named Buzz

One of Jodi’s friends left a wonderful quote in the ‘comments’ on this post:

“The hum of bees is the voice of the garden”

– Elizabeth Lawrence

Buzz the bumble bee is one of many cute animal characters in Jodi’s newly published children’s book Klaus The Mouse

Klaus The Mouse

Klaus the Mouse by Jodi McKinney – Amazon

Available for order HERE.

Jodi contributed a guest post in my Where and What is Beauty? series.

 

 Please visit Liz’s beautiful blog – Exploring Colour.

via Four Seasons with Jodi — Exploring Colour

I hope you are enjoying whatever season of weather and of life you are in!
Cherish the Moments!

Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi

 

39 thoughts on “Four Seasons with Jodi – Exploring Color”

  1. What a nice tribute to you! I will definitely visit.her blog. Glad you shared the link, New Zealand, Wow! Love how I can learn to know people from all around the world without leaving home! 🙂
    Also really enjoyed the Rain poem. Somehow I had missed that one. It’s beautiful!!
    Have a lovely day my friend!

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  3. What a lovely way of sharing your beautiful blog …. every single one of your ‘seasons’ as chosen by this lovely blogger is a gem – I would find it very hard to choose favourites from your place – you have such a talent and so often touch or speak my heart. I will certainly visit her place and leave a little note there too! ❤️

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  8. Imagine my surprise and Benjamin’s delight when I opened this morning’s post. I started with yesterday’s posts and worked up to today’s. We both agree that this post deserves many revisits! Benjamin wants me to tell “My Jodi” that this is “humongous” and “stupendous”…his new to him favorite words!! Thank-you to Liz from Exploring Colour and YOU too!

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  14. Many thanks for all the beauty and inspiration that you share with us Jodi, thanks for sharing back onto your blog and for your kind comments, and grateful thanks to your lovely friends for visiting my blog and sharing friendship with ‘likes’, warm comments and ‘follows’. Love and best wishes, Liz xx

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