truth...about my morning...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf

~in the garden....

everything has its own place and function. that applies to people, although many don’t seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. when you know and respect your inner nature, you know where you belong. you also know where you don’t belong.

the tao of pooh

{in the garden} new piece...

just been getting lost...and loving it...

i take my photo ...just to make sure i am really here...and than i don't really know if it is true...stay warm...xo

another day...in my dreamscape...

" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
Susan Sontag

~in the middle of editing a wedding shoot...to retell the story the way i saw it...or in my case felt it...
a sweet day to all...

~walden...visitors...

"i had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

Henry David Thoreau

Visitors

~everything fits...at least in my world...i had the pleasure to communicate and photograph, this amazing women...to really "listen" to her thoughts and feelings about her life...xo

welcome back...walden study..

~in short, i am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely;

Henry David Thoreau

more illusions

~ On Photography "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption ~ Susan Sontag

~ so love this book ,she is a master with words....i am in the last week of my art work...the show is this saturday....i am finding it is more challenging to do the work this time of year..for my garden has been calling for me and for that sake... everyone and their dog...happy week...xo

walden...chapter 11

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and fare hard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination. I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.

chapter 11

~ back to my studies on Walden...this image is from a recent shoot, very shy little girl...for her hands tell everything...a new day in the sun!!! off to the plant nursery...xo

silent spring....

“The earth’s vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.”

from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson pg. 64

~my april flowers...so far...reading a new book, Silent Spring, written by Rachel Carson...in awareness of the up coming earth day,  she truly was ahead of her time...

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

~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

http://dianeackerman.com/

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

CULTIVATING DELIGHT

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

three cups of tea....

when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

-Persian proverb

this is the most amazing book...just finished it and moving on to his next...it will give you a new way to see...the world...OMG!

check out this site www.threecupsof tea.com

~heart wide open...

 Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.



Lao Tzu



~more reading, the difference is it was outdoors last night...
welcome sweet spring  xo

spring...chapter 17...Walden....Henry David Thoreau

{A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities}




...a sweet happy birthday...to my wise and wonderful mother...
for teaching me about nature and it's gifts...
xo

state of becoming...

life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go

through,

where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it...

this is a kind of death.

~Anais Nin

~yes i been reading, what to do with those wee hours in the evening, when in half sleep... half dream...i read, the sweet words from Anais Nin. than  i can do my art, new piece by the way, can you tell i am dreaming of spring? please dont forget about the giveaway below...xo

have your cup...of tea

how wrong it is for a women to expect the man to

build the world she wants,

rather than to create it herself.

~Anais Nin

more reading of Anais....she seems to show me more each day,

new image, working on my blanc colour sceme...

have a sweet day...xo

bath...warm....

~the free

exploring mind

of the

individual

human

is the most

valuable thing

in the

world.

John Steinbeck

i must agree with this statement...to see more of the Bath seris just go to myflicker account...wishing you warmth.

inspired by...

Virginia Woolf...once again... reading her diary and loving every line, some kind of connection,

that inspires to look further and open more doors and see more of life...

here is a link...if you care to know more of this women

virginia

quiet corners...

~sometimes in life we need to be quiet...and put ourselves in the corner...today was one of those sweet days...xo  (new image)

childhood dreams...

"we plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected."

~Ben Okri

~a most wonderful Sunday...full of creative dreams...xo