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Hello Butterfly Friend,

I hope you are doing good this week. I bring you some magical sparkles to brighten and lighten your day.....



Beneath the Weeping Willow

by Thomas E. Cassick



I Wish to Spend this Night with Thee

Beneath the Summer Skies

Sheltered by a Willow Tree

and Away from Prying Eyes



And Underneath This Canopy

Of delicate chains of Green

My Heart be filled in Rhapsody

As I Hear you Softly Sing



And As I Listened, To your Voice

and the Words I'd Long to Hear

Of how your Heart, had made this Choice

To Hold Our Love, so Dear



Tears Would flow, Upon my Face

Much Like Our Weeping Willow

and I would Yearn for your Embrace

and thy busom for my Pillow



Then I too, would Sing with Thee

And Blend with Thine Own Song

Together in Sweet Harmony

and two Hearts beating Strong



Huggers,

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Butterfly Land

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Just stopping by to say hello and I hope you have a great week!

I love what you've done with your site! You should be really proud of yourself!

For most of us life passes like a dream,



Revealing only what is on our minds.



Inside the prison of the self we see



Each object as a shadow on our wall.



Nothingness awaits, as sure as night.



Did I not have you, dear friend, I might,



Shadow on a shade, not be at all.



How much we need a word beyond our sea:



In love and laughter, thoughts of different kinds,



Perhaps, with luck, unraveling a seam.

How little in me is not touched by you!



A friendship is a light that fills the heart,



Painting with its gold each darkened hue,



Providing warmth to each sequestered part.



You are the mirror of my better self,



Verifier of the best in me,



A bridge across the unsuspected gulf



Lodged between what can and ought to be.



Expectations can be wings, not bars,



Necessary to sustain our flight.



The faith of friends in us is wholly ours,



Incoming to uplift us to its height.



No soul can see itself, but must depend,



Each on each, upon a trusted friend.

The above poems were found at http://www.poemsforfree.com/formos.html

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We celebrate now our Second anniversary of the Guestbook Butterflies. Please surf to and enjoy the gifts you will find on: http://www.guestbookbutterflies.nl/2/index.htm


Butterflies

Butterflies go fluttering by
On colored wings that catch the eye.
On wings of orange, and silvery blue,
On wings of golden yellow, too.
Butterflies float in the air,
Making their homes most anywhere:
The rainforest, field, and prairie land,
On mountaintops, and desert sand.
If winter brings the cold and snow,
To warmer climates, off they go!
Returning home the following spring,
Beautiful butterflies on the wing!

Author Unknown



Butterfly

Flutter by,
Butterfly,
Floating flower
in the sky.
Kiss me with your
Petal wings---
Whisper secrets,
Tell of spring.

Author Unknown

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Water in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is a country that historically is associated with water management. For survival, the Dutch had to be inventive and developed a highly sophisticated manner to live with water. The high population density (465 persons/ square kilometre) combined with an economy largely related to transport, navigation and ports, results in pressure on space and environment that has to be managed carefully. To do this, the Dutch plan by involving relevant stakeholders, and design sustainable engineering and ‘smart’ infrastructure for complex settings.

Some facts & figures related to water in the Netherlands

* Population of the Netherlands: 16 million.
* Population density: 465 people/km2 on average.
* Major urban district: 'Randstad', which includes Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and the Hague.
* Highest point: 322m above average at the Vaalserberg .
* Lowest point: 6.74m below average, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel
* Proportion of the country’s GDP generated below sea level: 70%.
* Rainfall: 880 mm/year
* Evaporation: 500 mm/year.
* Primary flood defences: 3,500 km in total, consisting of 1,430 km of river ****** 1,017 km ***** around lakes, and 430 km ***** and 260 km dunes for coastal defense.

Water is the chemical substance with chemical formula H2O: one molecule of water has two hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to a single oxygen atom.

Water appears in nature in all three common states of matter and may take many different forms on Earth: water vapor and clouds in the sky; seawater and icebergs in the polar oceans; glaciers and rivers in the mountains; and the liquid in aquifers in the ground.

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Dear Butterfly Friend
we start the new year with lots of hope
for better days. This has been a difficult year for many
of us, but we have faith and hope that 2010
will be a properous and Happy new year.
To you and yours Happy New year
Butterfly Hugs from butterfly Lady Lyla



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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me, i
s more important than facts. It is more important than past,
than education, than money, than circumstances,
than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gifted ability, or skill.
It will make or break a company, a church, a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace
from that day. We cannot change our past,
we cannot change the fact that people will act in certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing that we can do is play on the one string that we have and this string is,
Attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me
and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you....
We are in charge of our Attitudes.
-- Charles Swindoll--

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We, The Butterflies from Guestbook Butterflies, want to wish you a very safe, and Merry Christmas.

Candlelit Heart
A Christmas Poem by Mary E. Linton

Somewhere across the winter world tonight
You will be hearing chimes that fill the air;
Christmas extends its all-enfolding light
Across the distance...something we can share.

You will be singing, just the same as I,
These familiar songs we know so well,
And you will see these same stars in your sky
And wish upon that brightest one that fell.

I shall remember you and trim my tree,
One shining star upon the topmost bough;
I will hang wreaths of faith that all may see --
Tonight I glimpse beyond the hear and now.

And all the time that we must be apart
I keep a candle in my heart.
















Christmas Joys


Evergreen boughs that fill our homes
With fragrant Christmas scents,
Hearts filled with the loving glow
That Christmas represents;


Christmas cookies, turkeys stuffed,
Festive holly berry,
Little faces bright with joy,
Loved ones being merry;


Parties, songs, beribboned gifts,
Silver bells that tinkle,
Christmas trees and ornaments,
Colorful lights that twinkle;


Relatives waiting with open arms
To smile and hug and kiss us;
These are some of the special joys
That come along with Christmas.


By Joanna Fuchs










Christmas Long Ago
A Christmas Poem by Jo Geis

Frosty days and ice-still nights,
Fir trees trimmed with tiny lights,
Sound of sleigh bells in the snow,
That was Christmas long ago.

Tykes on sleds and shouts of glee,
Icy-window filigree,
Sugarplums and candle glow,
Part of Christmas long ago.

Footsteps stealthy on the stair,
Sweet-voiced carols in the air,
Stocking hanging in a row,
Tell of Christmas long ago.

Starry nights so still and blue,
Good friends calling out to you,
Life, so fact, will always slow...
For dreams of Christmas long ago.

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This Butterfly is fluttering in with Thanksgiving Day Greeting and blessing for you and your family.




With this Thanksgiving week, I thought it appropriate to send this article I edited for you on Make Ahead Dishes. I know how busy we all are so why not make it easy on yourself and make some dishes ahead of time and be able to have some fun with your friends and your family.



Cook’s day off: Make these Thanksgiving dishes ahead of time
By Andrew Z. Galarneau

With Thanksgiving barely a week away, here are some terrific dishes you can make a day or two ahead, and reheat without distress.

Schultz agreed to share his corn pudding recipe, from Jenny Karpinske, his Polish grandmother. It’s versatile; add sharp cheddar and roasted green chile, and it can sing a Southwestern tune.

• Mashed potatoes can be made ahead, dotted with butter and browned to order.

• Casseroles and baked dishes can be covered with aluminum foil and reheated in the oven. Remove foil to brown top.

• “Freezer rolls” can be made, frozen as dough weeks ahead, then allowed to rise, ready before baking.

• Even a turkey can be roasted the previous day, then carved and rewarmed in a pan with stock.

• Stuffing, baked in a pan, might even be better a day after it is made.

Spread the cooking over several days before dinner, and this Thanksgiving home cooks might enjoy the holiday for a change.

“This way,” said Schultz, “you can actually talk to the people you’re having over, and have a good time.”

Colonial Corn Pudding

1 can whole kernel corn, drained
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
3 eggs, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon dried parsley, or 1 teaspoon fresh, chopped
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 1/2 cups milk (not skim)
Salt and pepper to taste

Combine corn, onions and eggs in bowl. Whisk in flour, baking powder, parsley, sugar, butter and milk. Season with salt and pepper.

Pudding mixture can be made the day before and refrigerated.

To cook, preheat oven to 350. Pour mixture into buttered 1 1/2 quarts casserole or single-serving ramekins. Place dish or dishes in pan with 1 inch of water. Place in oven.

Bake until firm, and knife inserted in center comes out clean. That’s about 1 1/2 hours in a single dish, or about 35 minutes in ramekins.



Have a Wonderful Holiday !!!



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A butterfly whispered to me!

Tree At My Window by Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree,


My sash is lowered when night comes on;


But let there never be curtain drawn


Between you and me.


Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground,


And thing next most diffuse to cloud,


Not all your light tongues talking aloud


Could be profound.


But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,


And if you have seen me when I slept,


You have seen me when I was taken and swept


And all but lost.


That day she put our heads together,


Fate had her imagination about her,


Your head so much concerned with outer,


Mine with inner, weather.

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Wanted to leave you a message that your web site is very lovely, wishng you the best always.

Heathers Home

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Hello I love your web site, you have lost of beautiful things her. I will be back to see more.

Heathers Home

I always enjoy visiting your beautiful web site, always so much beauty here. Have a wonderful week.

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beign lucky

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky.

autumn leaves

The winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you
like the leaves of Autumn.

Fall poem by John Muir

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
as I have seen in one autumnal face

Autumn quote by John Donne



A fallen leaf is nothing more
than a summers wave good bye

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Flower of the Month


January Carnation, Snowdrop
February Violet, Primrose
March Daffodil, Jonquil
April Daisy, Sweet Pea
May Lily of the Valley, Hawthorn
June Rose, Honeysuckle
July Larkspur, Water Lily
August Gladiolas, Poppy
September Aster, Morning Glory
October Calendula, Cosmos
November Chrysanthemum
December Narcissus, Holly

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about the Love of fluttering

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from Mother Earth I come

I wander'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth

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Ocean Life:
Sun dawning in the morning,
Beaming, over ocean, glowing.
Nature rising, slowly waking
Light on waves- dancing, prancing




See the fish, swimming, bobbing,
The reef awakes in sunshine glory.
Plants and weeds moving, swaying
Curious crabs, crawling slowly.



Dolphins leap and laugh with play,
Eels slithering every-which-way
Daytime comes, wow, it’s hot!
Swimmers climbing on sand and rock.



Barking seals, lazily floating,
Tiny plankton, wandering, dozing
Majestic whales float on by,
Gulping water- *gasp* Oh my!



The reef is surrounded, full and crowded
Eager fish, searching, feeding
Fins flaring, teeth seething,
What a frenzy!Hunting-hounded!



Golden rays gradually sinking,
Alerted fish, scamper…nervous-
Shadows loom, dark, mysterious
The sun has set in the evening



“ZOMG!!Sharks!” They all do say
Prey fleeing, and predator approaching.
Senses keening, jaws snapping
Hungrily chasing the fish away!



“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.”

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Hello my friends this week I bring to you some fairy sprinkles and some wonderful fantasy poems. Please enjoy and have a great day and a wonderful week.



Forgotten Dreams
by Clara Aden
Once I knew the sense of freedom,
Once I saw the glittering face of enchantment,
Once I felt the love of nature,
Once I smelt the magical fragrance of the flowers.
Once I heard the song of the mystics,
And talked to the animals,
Once I lived the life of fantasies,
And climbed the highest mountains.
Once I was adventurous,
And was excited by the strike of danger.
But it's gone.
Where did it go?
Where did it go?



The Last Unicorn
by Aisho
Glittering a crystalline white in the morning dawn,
The last unicorn stands proud
Against the wavering beams of night
That disbelief does spawn.



Merlin's Oak
by Alienor
Have you ever seen an oak waver?
Have you seen it bend, shake and quiver?
It once laid by the throbbing forest of the Sorcerer,
Where the owls hoot and the trees whisper.
One dewy autumn morning,
When the sun was just waking,
When the clouds were painting up high
Their sinuous rainbows in the flushed sky,
When the early robin had not yet taken its flight,
And the moon still chanted the mysteries of the night,
When all was waking and yet drowsy with sleep,
When the world was stirring yet still huddled in a heap,
The oak sighed ever so lightly,
The leaves shivered ever so softly
And the large twisted trunk seemed to twist yet more
Until the tip of it's smallest branch could touch the sea shore.
Whether t'was sad or relieved, none knows.
But so the story goes
That the frail hand of a child
Grazed the oak's hard bark
And the tree gave a start
At a touch so light and mild,
It then started to bend and twist,
The dark wood creaked and hissed,
Until the trunk roughly pictured
The smiling face of an old wizard.
The infant beamed at the great oak
And then released the gentle touch
And the face vanished like smoke
And none ever saw again a magic of such.

Huggers,

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A Butterfly pointed the way

Only one more month of Summer left,
Then it won't be long,
Until the cold North winds of Winter,
Will be blowing strong.



"Whilst August yet wears her golden crown,
Ripening fields lush- bright with promise;
Summer waxes long, then wanes, quietly passing
Her fading green glory on to riotous Autumn."
- Michelle L. Thieme, August's Crown



I hope you enjoy the rest of Summer, and that it eases gently into Fall.
Loving Hugs,
Butterfly Mariel