Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Getting older and letting go aren’t easy things, but we can learn lots with nature. I always keep the flowers until all the petals fell down. These were the first tulips that I got this year, at the start of February. You can see how pretty they were here. They are still pretty to me, but now it’s time to let them go.
Have a great weekend!
Sharing with Cee’s FOTD
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Good Morning!
Today’s the theme is Fresh, well, so many things fresh things around me this morning:
The fresh flowers I’ve on my kitchen counter, fresh eggs, from the farm market, that I scrambled for my husband, fresh laundry waiting to be ironed, a new book on my coffee table …, but today I want to show the freshness of a habit, my journaling practice. I hope I have captured it below:
Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
The freshness of a new morning
Coffee fragance diffusing through the kitchen
Blank pages waiting
Waiting for words
And thoughts
To surrender to the moment
Have a lovely and fresh Sunday!
Festival of flowers at the grocery store. So pretty, I couldn’t resist and take this pic. It wasn’t easy to decide which bouquet to bring home with me, but as Monet said:
I must have flowers, always, and always.
Claude Monet
I had to pick one of them. Can you guess which one?
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One is loved because one is loved.
No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
A lovely day to you!
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Today, Terri asks us to post about Frozen, an easy theme for me. I only need to cross a street to take a few pics of a frozen river. Many pretty spots to shoot, but this one above is magical, an ice sculpture!
This corner was sparking while being bathed with sunshine. I stopped there a little bit, a few minutes of solitude listening to the water move under the ice.
And on the way, I found this piece of ice shaped like a heart. Yes, secret messages everywhere.
Hope you enjoyed to walk along the frozen river with me.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Good Morning! Happy Friday!
Tulips season is starting here in my part of the world. Of course, not yet in my garden, but at least at the grocery stores.
Tulips are my favorite spring flowers, I never get tired of photographing them.
Earth laughs in flowers
R. W. Emerson
Sharing with Cee’s FOTD (Flower Of The Day).
Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness
Eckhart Tolle
Every morning with a cup of coffee in my hands, I try to learn from these trees. Their stillness and strength during all the seasons are impressive.
Hope you have a lovely Nurturing Thursday!
Colleen has added another form of poetry to the challenge, Haiga! A combination of poetry and image. I love it because I can incorporate 2 of my favorite forms of creative together: photography and poetry.
Haiga is sometimes called observational poetry because it contains an image with either a haiku or senryu written on it or near it.
Colleen Chesebro
Being the first Tuesday of the month, we get to choose our own words for the challenge, I’ve chosen Earth and Soul.
Flakes kissing the Earth
A moment to be treasured
Softness for the Soul
Hope you enjoy my first Haiga, and if you want to know more about it, please check Colleen’s post here.
I enjoyed so much to join Sunday Stills with Hugh these last 2 Sundays, that I decided to keep up with Terri’s Sunday Stills Photo Challenge.
Today’s theme is Fire.
The first thing that came to my mind was the Earth’s fire, the Earth core where the temperature is similar to the temperature in the surface of the sun, around 6000 Celsius! It isn’t a fire in there, but a metal combination that makes the heat.
We are in the middle of the winter in the North Hemisphere, soon the spring will spring, a sign that the Earth is alive and the fire still keeps burning.
Have a great Sunday!
E.
