Life is full of beauty
Life is full of beauty; you just need the ability to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity.
We need to give each other room so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Enjoy beauty in everything.
winter snow on pines
finding color
February 20, 2011
“hope is a walking dream”
While trying to find color in the middle of winter…I fell back to a favorite quote “hope is a walking dream”. You may wonder how this relates to trying to find color in the dead of winter. You could look out your window and just see gray, and white and blah, blah, blah or your could take your hope, your dream and find color. Even in the dead of winter there is color. Color is everywhere, you just have to lift yourself beyond the blah’s of the “I only see gray and white” and really see.
It is fact that outside you have snow, and even when it is melting you have dirty snow; look beyond the obvious. Open your eyes and look closely there is color is everywhere; so many browns, tans, dark greens, red berries of the hawthorn, different shades of white; color just muted. Now look inside your windows, open your curtains, raise your blinds, let the light in, find color, it is everywhere. Color in your walls, your art, furniture, blankets, floors, clothing, everywhere color!!! Make it bright and beautiful, here is your hope, your dream for finding color till spring when the bulbs emerge from their slumber and the buds burst open and all that was muted become so brilliant and lively.
So till then expand your perception, open your eyes and find color, it is everywhere you look.
beautiful old quilts from the Midget House at the Chicamacomico lifesaving Station Rodanthe, NC
missing you
February 6, 2011
missing you
Every winter I am amazed when the Robins return. Thoughts rattle through my brain…what in the world are you thinking, returning to this frozen tundra so early. But every year they are back by the beginning of February.
Their return had gone un-noticed to me which is quite unusual; subtle hits were all around but I have just been in a daze for some reason. Maybe months of cold and snow…I don’t know. But this morning as I was getting off shift , I was awoken from my daze that I have been walking around in . Amazing when you see when you look beyond the white landscape. What rattled out of my daze was the beautiful song of the Norther Cardinal. Love its song. As I was sliding across the ice to the car there the Robin was, just sitting all alone in the tree beside the drive. I hustled as much as you can on an ice and snow-covered parking lot to my car, got my camera out and captured a few images. My first Robin of the year…here even with inches of ice on the ground covered by inches of snow.
beauty of the elements
February 5, 2011
Always look for the brighter side of life
Only we can find our own path in the snow
Winter storm brought inches of ice then a hefty layer of snow on top. Beautiful, yet so treacherous to traverse upon. With more snow on the way I can only hope for more wonderful images to capture.
keep warm and safe
simply
January 30, 2011
What makes you feel so simply beautiful and alive?
Joy
January 26, 2011
Thought I would share a little joy with you!
1 a : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires:DELIGHT
b : the expression or exhibition of such emotion:GAIETY
2: a state of happiness or felicity:BLISS
3: a source or cause of delight
Finished Framed/Matted. Alphabet images taken from Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving station , NC
