This week Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays takes a look back at beauty and Mother’s Day. Remember you can take this beautiful topic anywhere you want to take it.
I’m also participating with Cee’s Midweek Madness: Purple, and with Cee’s Flower of the Day
Remember the interview of John Steiner the other day? Several of you asked about the twirling process. Click on his name in the caption, follow his excellent instructions, and you can do this to any colorful photo!
#Prescott Walk #12B: Blooming Hills Drive
The charm of some of the flowering undesirables started my thinking about this Writer’s Wednesday QuoteFs post about beauty and along with that age since mothers are always older than we are. Until suddenly we are the oldest mothers in the family.
Like Restless Jo said to me yesterday in a comment, “Do you sometimes have the feeling that someone is shortening your day when you’re not looking, Marsha?”
Yes, I definitely do! but I digress…
1 Purple Weed 
2 Purple Thistle 
3 Almost purple
“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.”
Martin Buxbaum
Puppy Girl stopped frequently allowing me plenty of time to take some close up shots of the weeds. My favorite was the dandelion. I got to wondering if there was any beauty in fading, aging flowers. This flower, like number 3 above was not as pretty, but there was more going on inside the flower.
I am not a scientist, so if you have more information to offer about the beauty of this weed, feel free to chime in.
Inside this older flower, a spider had time to weave a little web and as the stamen had disintegrated, parts collected on the web. It looks like some tiny bugs had attached themselves. I saw a red leaf and the petals developed ruffled edges.
So the older plant offers more life to others. Its beauty has moved from its “face to its heart. ”
The Dandelion Allure
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
Dandelions have a short enough life span that we we can examine their beauty over time. Even if you don’t want them in your yard, they are a bright spot. They are loaded with anti-oxidants, although if you eat too many you could get allergic reactions, including gas, stomach discomfort, diarrhea, or heartburn according to Web MD.
One post sited ten significant health and beauty benefits that dandelions offer us. Medical News Today spoke of research done with mice. If you feed your pet mouse dandelions, it will never suffer from high cholesterol, saggy skin, high blood pressure, high or low blood sugar or inflammation. You might not either if you can get past the stomach discomfort of eating too much dandelion soup.
Dandelion soup, dandelion soup If I don't get some, I think I'm going to droop. Take away my puncture vine Take away my spurge But don't take away my dandelion soup. © 2021 Marsha Ingrao
Beginning seedhead 
Middle-aged seedhead 
Old seedhead
Once they finish their usefulness as an antioxidant, they develop into a seedhead. Many think this is when they are the most beautiful. Fathers love when their children run around the yard collecting them and blowing on them. Like blowing out birthday candles or bubbles, the beauty is in the competition to see who can blow off the most seeds in one breath.
Getting back to the original topic of beauty and motherhood, I look in the mirror and I don’t see the beauty in getting older. But I look at the seedhead above, and I see that it gets more and more beautiful as it ages.
But is physical beauty what is most important in life? Some of the most arresting pictures of people are those with faces aged with life’s trials like Khmer Rouge prison Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh survivor in this article by Sarah Wilkies .
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
The Beauty of Mothers
Born May 12 (today), 1926, my mama was not considered beautiful by worldly standards. Yet the older and more frail she got, the more beautiful and precious she was to me. She enchanted and charmed people with her wonderful stories and endearing smile.
Mom as a baby 
8th grade Mom
As a toddler, if Grandma didn’t tie her to the porch, she would wander down the street and have tea and cookies with each of the neighbors. She had her route.
At forty, she started life over as a single mom. Mom showed us what self-respect and bravery meant. She moved 2,500 miles taking her two children and with very little work experience, supported us, and expected us to contribute by being responsible and staying out of trouble. She went back to school and became a teacher. Even when she wasn’t smiling, we knew she loved us.
She taught us to care about our family, each other, and others. She never met a stranger, nor did we. The importance of education exuded from her life, and Randy and I both finished high school and got jobs. I went back to school later and earned my teaching credential, administrative credential and master’s degree. She was proud of both of us.
Mama loved purple.
Thank you Mom for showing us the power of inner beauty.
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What’s your story of beauty? Tell it with a quote.
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Thanks, friends. See you soon.
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61 responses to “#WQWWC #24: Beauty/Mother’s Day Revisited”
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Here is my entry for the week.
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Fabulous, Cee. I’m glad to see that you are not always that frustrated. That’s how I feel sometimes without having long haulers but when I can’t figure something out. When I was the Executive Director of an organization and was responsible for the books, that was exactly how I felt when I had to tackle Quick Books at first. 🙂
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Hello
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I loved learning about your mum, Marsha. What a woman!
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Thanks, Norah. I think so, too. But then you come from a family of strong women, too. 🙂
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Yep. We’re all descendants of survivors. 🙂
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True that, or we would not be here.
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Exactly!
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This is a lovely tribute to your mother, Marsha.
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Thanks, Carol. It worked out perfectly to be on her birthday.
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This is such a wonderful post and I love that you shared your mom photos. I didn’t take many photos this weekend as I was too busy living in the moment and what a great Mother’s Day it was. I just realized you probably didn’t see my quote for last week because I didn’t change my link for #23. I just fixed the post and hope you enjoy it when you get time. 🙂 Duh! LOL!
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I’ll take a look tonight. 🥰🥰🥰
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🙂
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Hi M
This post was delightful and seeing your mom at 80 – well
You could feel the joy!
((And it is posts like this one that make coming back to blogging even more enjoyable – these rich blogger shares that are one of a kind posts
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Hi Y! Welcome back!!!! I missed you!
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☀️🙏🌸🌸🌸🌸
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such a lovely tribute to your Mom, Marsha 🙂
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Thank you so much, Lady Lee!
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Thanks, Frank.
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Thank you so much, Frank.
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I never know where I’m going to pop up next 🙂 🙂 Wonderful to have that kind of relationship with your Mum, Marsha. She must have been a wonderful soul. Now I need to go and read Sarah’s link. Missed that one!
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Say hi to Sarah! Thanks for stopping by. Link to link to link, right? 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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Here is my response for the week. I hope you like my flowers. 😀
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This is such a lovely post and dedication to your mother, Marsha.
I love this line particularly – So the older plant offers more life to others. Its beauty has moved from its “face to its heart. ”
This is my entry for this week – https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2021/05/12/national-limerick-day-12th-may/
Thanks
KL ❤
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Very cute post, KL. I wrote you a limerick! 🙂
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Thank you for joining in the fun. They were both really good. KL ❤
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Thanks KL. 🤗🤗❤️❤️
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Thank you for featuring my post about Chum Mey. Your mum sounds like an amazing woman and I share her love of purple!
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You are so welcome, Sarah. I only wish my mom could have known you. She loved everything English!
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oops forgot my link…lol.
https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2021/05/wqwwcmay-12-themebeauty.html
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Love the photos with your mom. The purple is great too! 😀 😀
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Thanks Cee. Something besides flowers. 🙂
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Loved your post Marsha. I shared one of the same ones you did, and your first quote, I thought of sharing. I love your illustration of the flower in the first quote. So good and so true. My girls grew up calling the “aged” dandelion wishy flowers…I think they are beautiful.
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So cute. They are sort of wishy flowers. They make great photos. I think I like the oldest one of the three best. 🙂
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What a lovely post Marsha. Thanks for the mention
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Thank you, Sadje. I had fun with the post. Beauty has many directions and possibilities!
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Indeed, it can go many ways. You’re welcome. I’ll be writing my post tomorrow
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Awesome, I always look forward to reading and responding to it, Sadje. Have a great day.
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Thank you so much ☺️
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🙂
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Very clever way to meet the purple challenge and honor your mother. Cheers to the fortitude and example she showed you during her life. I will give you a double feature this week. First, here’s a recent beach walk I did about my mother. https://beachwalkreflections.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/72-mom/ …. PLUs, early morning tomorrow (actually late tonight for you) you will receive a pingback for a new beach walk about beauty.
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Perfect. I’ll expect it. I’m on my phone today while we travel. Internet service is slow.
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What a wonderful post honoring moms and fading beauty, Marsha. Your mom was a go-getter and how proud she must have been of you as you followed in her educational footsteps. I wish my own grandparents could have known that three of their grandchildren achieved secondary degrees and worked in education. I love how you tied it all in to faded beauty and the weeds in our lives. I already posted that our “noxious” weeds, the sunflowers and now lupine and popping up all over our property and how much joy they bring me. Love your quotes and I’m inspired to tie WQW into my SS color challenge!
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Thanks, Terri. I’d be honored to join forces. I try to link up to several challenges. My topics are all listed, but I’m going to do one week of choice. Kudos to your kids for doing so well. They are making a difference and working under such challenging circumstances.
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as soon as I saw purple, I had to read it. your mom sounds like a wonderful woman – nice to know she liked purple as well!
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Thanks, Jim. She was a fabulous mom. We were very close.
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that’s nice to hear…
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