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Matthew Arnold, ‘Growing Old’.
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for beauty to forgo her wreath?
—Yes, but not this alone.
Is it to feel our strength—
Not our bloom only, but our strength—decay?
Is it to feel each limb
Grow stiffer, every function less exact,
Each nerve more loosely strung?
Yes, this, and more; but not
Ah, ’tis not what in youth we dreamed ’twould be!
’Tis not to have our life
Mellowed and softened as with sunset glow,
A golden day’s decline …
To grow different than all the others is no problem. To be the same as all the others is much worse. Don't be another brick in the wall...
Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata) juvenile
Growing but still calling for Mum or Dad to bring food. You can just see the red wattle starting to develop. This is one from one of the five nests we ended up with in our garden.
small strawberries self-seeded by the garden shed
for: Smile on Saturday: fruit on white background
thank you for all visits and wishing you a happy weekend
Trees and brush growing along the shore of a pond on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton.
This eyas osprey is growing rapidly. It's almost as big as its parent. The other eyas is under the shade of its parent. I took this photo at Lake Sonoma, Sonoma County, CA.