The Magic of Orginary Days

Within you 

there is a stillness 

and a sanctuary 

to which you can retreat 

any time.

~ Hermann Hesse

Enough already!

Enough already with the sunflowers!

But they're all over the yard.

Then go buy something else at the store.

Just not the same.

~ conversation with myself

For happiness one needs security, 

but joy can spring like a flower 

even from the cliffs of despair. 

~ Anne Morrow Lindberg

A Sunflower for Stacey

Never look directly at the sun. 

Instead, look at the sunflower. 

~ Vera Nazarian

Home Grown

from seed in our yard

they're fresh and organic

not pretty but proud

the sun also rises

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou

Who gazest ever true and tender

On the sun's revolving splendour.

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Life is just a bowl of cherries!

Life is just a bowl of cherries

Don't take it serious, 

Life's too mysterious

You work, 

You save,

You worry so

But you can't take your dough 

When you go, go, go

Happy Memorial Day

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,
but in striving that our country
shall be righteous as well as strong.
Happy Memorial Day !!

Shades of Love

I'll stay inside your shades of love,

makes one day forever.

~ Empty Trash

It's really here!

it's really here

it's really spring, that is

in full bloom glory

The Arrangement

Keep love in your heart.

A life without it is like a sunless garden

when all the flowers are dead.

~ Oscar Wilde

Stacked

We do not see things as they are...

we see things as we are.

~ Anais Win

Sweet Nostalgia

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: 

you find the present tense, but the past perfect! 

~ Owens Lee Pomeroy

Home Grown

What we plant in the soil of contemplation,

 we shall reap in the harvest of action.
~  Meister Eckhart

Smile!

Happy looks good on you.

Rain on the Window

Well, I'm home...back from my trip to Colorado and here I am posting the very last photo I took. This was taken from the kitchen window of our cabin in Big Bear. The first time I'd seen rain since I left California, two weeks earlier. Thanks to the terrible drought, much of Colorado was looking like high desert with so much sage popping up where tall green grass usually grows. I just hope that the jet stream sent this much needed moisture east to my second favorite state.

Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun

 from which we get sunshine when dark, 

somber skies blanket our thoughts. 
~ Dodinsky

Strawberries in a Turquoise Bowl

When is a cucumber like a strawberry?
When one is in a pickle and the other is in a jam.

Morning Light

When you arise in the morning,
think of what a precious privilege it is
to be alive
- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Flowers Wanted