April 14, 2010

Namaste....to you....

"The light in me sees the light in you"




~my little sister {Ali} sent this to me via email yesterday...for the connection with her is marvelous~ learning to move through life with out the drama and the games and becoming healthy...mind,spirit and body and realizing I can only change myself to bring peace...and loving all others for just who they are...
and seeing their light...xo

April 13, 2010

something new and exciting....




~went to the plant nursery this am...since it was raining, oh yea...i work outdoors, they had a new job for me today!! asked me to do some of the many design jobs sitting in the box...OMG...lots of specs...

lighting


space


soil type


house style


style of garden


water


color


plant types


budget


bloom time


to name a few...

it was so fun doing the drawings, i really thought i was more of a( do it as i go girl), you know that intuition thing, six sense that i rely on now. Well when i got home , I  wanted to feed the brain a little more and found this landscaping program smart draw   Wow!!yes easily entertained ...and amazed by how life gives you so much...happy days even when it rains....xo

April 12, 2010

~living the width....

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

Diane Ackerman


~new book...wow..oh, new image also...xo

CULTIVATING DELIGHT



A natural history of the garden, by an intellectual sensualist.

April 11, 2010

~my little "rock star" daughter...

generally i don't post about my daughter Sydney...she is an amazing kid, she's almost 14,  pretty passionate about everything she does, including the sports...she made the traveling volleyball team, meaning...she travels around the state of Montana almost every weekend,  it's been good for her mother also(good talk time with my teenager...any ways, this weekend she didn't travel, but she went skiing with my sister's family, about two hours away, I had shoots all day, plus a contribution benefit, Eagle fest, to attend dealing with my artwork,  she crashed on the snow hill, got a call....she will be fine, her shoulder is messed up, I got to talk to her a couple hours after it happened and she was in major pain...but she told me she loved me and that she was good to go...and it was just a time thing to heal, holy crap, I love her courage, for she truly is a little rock star in life.......

have a wonderful Sunday...xo

April 8, 2010

children know...


Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.



R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)




~a mother and son at the last wedding i shot....for the bound is there and nothing forced, arent I the lucky one to see and feel that.... may you draw your pictures from your heart ....
not your head...xo

April 7, 2010

fill the pots...and plant something...

~yes, it's that time of the year again and i choose to do a balancing act...for  it fills my soul...(seasonal work at the plant nursery) something about touching new seedlings and learning all new about the natural world....oh yea I work my butt off...literally also..unloading trucks and all,  just to say there may not be as many posts...with my balancing act.....happy girl!!

April 5, 2010

while momma edits....

smoky got smoked...Lacy my (crazy kid) gets bored easily...and i had a wedding to edit today...so yea...


chapter 3...walden...

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.





~photo on my little trip to nature for the day...good monday  xo

April 2, 2010

a little Einstein for your "holiday" weekend...

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."







"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

~Albert Einstein