Focus, Fun, and Creativity
As I’ve walked this past week, I’ve seen so many beautiful flowers. Here are just a few of them.
The first two are Colorado Columbines.
I had fun editing this one and love the way it came out.
And finally, these Violas – or Johnny Jump-Ups. I think they’re sweet.
…usually help lift my sagging spirits and tonight I’ve got a case of the “sags.”
(Actually, I have a case of the “sags” all the time now, just in a more literal physical sense. 🙂 Tonight, though, I’m specifically addressing my mood.)
So, short and to the point, here are some lovely flowers I’ve manged to photograph over the last couple of days.
I hope these flowers lift your “sags,” too.
I’ve always loved looking through things. Yesterday, I noticed my beautiful Easter gift, this orchid, with the light shining through the petals. Naturally, I grabbed my camera and this is what I saw.
“Let there be Light.”
Backing off a little bit:
And then there’s this beauty to share this beautiful Sunday.
May your Sunday be filled with light and beautiful colors!
… bring May flowers.”
Ooooppppsss! Mother Nature didn’t get the memo.
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.”
~Jim Carrey
For all his craziness, I think this quote of Jim Carrey’s indicates a lot of wisdom.
Turning toward the Light can make us all bloom more beautifully.
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
Buddha
(Photo edited using PicMonkey)
Computer frustrations this morning (no-thanks to Microsoft) make this tulip picture all the more beautiful to me as I look for the “miracle” in this computer age.
That being said, today I’m going to focus on reaching out to others in love, not via technology, but with a simple hand-written note card to mail to a friend.
I’m going to do hands-on work on a knitting project for charity.
I’m going to cook a real dinner, not microwaved, but the old-fashioned way – with love and gratitude and natural ingredients.
And I’m going to turn off my cell phone, turn off my computer, and listen to the birds singing and savor the smell of spring and rain.
Today, I’m focusing on the simple miracles of my very simple life.
And I wish you all a miracle in your life today, too.
…. because it’s good for the soul and I happen to agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson when he wrote:
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”
Talk about a stunning example of “God’s handwriting.”
I don’t know what this lovely flower is so I’m not sure how to care for it. Does anyone else have a clue? Help, please!!!
It was an Easter gift and didn’t come with any instructions, so I’ll have to savor the beauty for as long as I can until, and when, I learn how to care for it.
Wouldn’t today be a great day to look for God’s handwriting in your life?
… but for now, they’re just a “silk” promise of what’s to be.
Yet even while waiting for the flowers to bloom, focusing on love – for family, friends, pets, life – keeps “spring” alive in our hearts which is why I think these words by the Irish poet Oscar Wilde are so true:
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
May your lives be blessed with the richness of love – and perhaps even flowers – today!
Look into the gazing ball and soon, My Precious, soon it will be spring!
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday in Colorado it was 61 degrees. Last night we got 4 inches of snow. Today it was 54 degrees and all the snow is gone.
Sometimes, you just have to laugh and see what tomorrow will bring!
There’s an Indian Proverb that says, “All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”
The same is true for us. All the seeds of anger or love that we plant today, will bloom in our tomorrows. May your garden be peaceful, harmonious and beautiful.
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