A Few November Blooms

Iris your pictures show that nature displays its beauty in all seasons. All flowers are looking colorful and bright. The flowering cabbage I am seeing for the first time and they look so beautiful. The rose and the bud is looking so fresh. The rose bud reminded me of the following story and poem:
A new minister was walking with an older, more seasoned minister in the garden one day. Feeling a bit insecure about what God had for him to do, he was asking the older preacher for some advice. The older preacher walked up to a rosebush and handed the young preacher a rosebud and told him to open it without tearing off any petals. The young preacher looked in disbelief at the older preacher and was trying to figure out what a rosebud could possibly have to do with his wanting to know the will of God for his life and ministry. But because of his great respect for the older preacher, he proceeded to try to unfold the rose, while keeping every petal intact. It wasn’t long before he realized how impossible this was to do. Noticing the younger preacher’s inability to unfold the rosebud without tearing it, the older preacher began to recite the following poem…
“It is only a tiny rosebud,
A flower of God’s design;
But I cannot unfold the petals
With these clumsy hands of mine.”
“The secret of unfolding flowers
Is not known to such as I.
GOD opens this flower so easily,
But in my hands they die.”
“If I cannot unfold a rosebud,
This flower of God’s design,
Then how can I have the wisdom
To unfold this life of mine?”
“So I’ll trust in God for leading
Each moment of my day.
I will look to God for guidance
In each step along the way.”
“The path that lies before me,
Only my Lord and Savior knows.
I’ll trust God to unfold the moments,
Just as He unfolds the rose.”

Sharad

-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

Iris, your flowers are still so lovely this late in the year. Such color! My gardens are pretty much finished; even my kale didn’t survive our freaky snowstorm in October….Enjoy those blooms while they last!

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

Thanks for your kind comments, RFG and Sharad.

@Sharad…....What a lovely poem and poem. Very appropriate for a gardener who works hand and hand with a Higher Power in a garden. :)

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

really???
Oh what a different zone you are in – and so, so close.. sigh…

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I’m such a babe in these woods! I love the flowering cabbage – now on my list for next year!

-- There's a box?

Wow Iris I can’t believe you have so much still in bloom.Beautiful.
Sharad…I really loved your poem.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more