Do It

"Ask yourself what you could do 

to make situations less difficult. 

Do it, even if you think 

you shouldn't have to."

~ Karin Ireland

Things look different
below my usual morning perch

Luscious low fog engulfs the cove this morning as light seeps into the sky. Time to play in the dirt and sky. (I bought a fragile white rose plant yesterday that I need to find spot for...)

She fits perfectly in the garden. (Photo)

Now for some rocks... & of course the rising sun. 

Friendship Is Precious

Happy Birthday, Brenda

"Friendship is precious,
not only in the shade,

 but in the sunshine of life." 

~ Thomas Jefferson 

Affinity

"Human beings grew up in forests; 

we have a natural affinity for them. 

How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky."

 ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Waiting for the sun to rise. The sky changes colors so quickly.

Collecting rocks for my top garden from the back field, which is bursting fireworks of white wild blackberry flowers. 

Just back from uphill hike with camera full of ooo-ing ahh-ing photos...

Heart

 Catch it before it dissolves. A break in the gray, a beautiful white heart fills the sky. See it? A kiss from Nature, a promise, a gentle reminder.
"Believe."

"Ask questions from your heart 

and you will be answered from the heart."

 ~ Omaha Indian Proverb

Whirling fog & clouds. Softness, like heartbreak. (Yes, my heart is broken.) Gray, mostly, but wild tinged of pale red-pink light. Birds loving it. (Photo)... 

After the rain, everything rocks green. Hundreds or birds singing. (Photo)... Rain kissed garden flowers. Lavender blue. #dillyDilly (Photo)... "Nature somehow knows," I think. 

This locus tree tilts right, bending south with strong branches, elegant leaves. Nice to watch birds & clouds. (Photo)... It is true good things come to those who wait and so briefly, maybe five seconds, my sun came out to see me. & the heart opens wide, for an instant.

Mud-luscious

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
  ~e.e. cummings

Thyself

"Make it thy business to know thyself,
which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
~ Miguel De Cervantes

Watching the light break through the clouds. Absolutely gorgeous sky show... My holy rose this morning. Fragile music, all Aloha.

rain, tears & nourishment

 

Radiant Heat

Just back from a short walk, got lost in the music of dozens of birds who like me wait for the sun...  

"The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it
 as it feels the campfire or sunshine,
 entering not by the eyes alone,
but equally through all one's flesh
like radiant heat,
 making a passionate ecstatic pleasure
glow not explainable."

~ John Muir

Reason

 "Faith, hope and love

are the three most important words in my life.

I believe it is faith that helps you achieve

those things you hope for

and that love is the reason for it all."

~ Dolly Parton

Harmony

Lying on my back, looking up at the sky. So nice to just contemplate the changing colors. I just took a shot of the crescent moon with my irises. I love the shot... Photo

Looking up at the crescent moon. Me & my irises. Oh. So. Wondrous. 

"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."

~ Paul Cézanne

Imagination

"There are no days in life so memorable 

as those which vibrate 

to some stroke of the imagination." 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Again. Waiting for the sun. Photo...


Well that cresting sun looks like a nipple on the breast of that reclining mountain.

Happiness

Sky is smeared red over pale blue. Golden light seeps in. The moon, off to the right, is outside my focus range. http://goapp.tv/s/24867


Me & Kolo, sitting on the garden steps, waiting for sun. My thyme that hugs the steps smells heavenly. http://goapp.tv/s/24868... 


Yep. My once-blind Kolo CAN definitely see.

"Where your pleasure is,
there is your treasure:
where your treasure, there your heart;
where your heart, there your happiness."

 ~ St. Augustine

Feel The Sweetness

"You cannot teach love,
but you can feel the sweetness 
that it pours into everything."
~ Anne Sullivan

This morning, the sky is all sweet honey, pouring over me, pouring sweetness over everything around me. I am spellbound, every photo is fantastic, and again I think it will be difficult to just choose one. So today, I've narrowed it down to three.

What a tremendous sunrise! Below, my favorite photo today...

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Try Again... Fail Again

"Try again.. Fail again. Fail better."

~ Samuel Beckett

The sky has taught teaches me that the heart is precious and pumps goodness. I believe that when we connect profoundly, we can do great things together... 

I am waiting for the sun to rise... Good morning, world!

My world is awash in spring greens. I am in love with all the brightness. Above is that saucer moon and I gaze at the lemon-orange sky,  waiting for the miraculous crest. And the chorus of birds, so insistent, serenades me and the moon.

We are soaking in the sounds of the morning and all this endless beauty! Morning is a daily gift and I am overwhelmed, grateful, and feel immortal. 

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Made Of Hidden Stuff

"Everything in Nature

contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of hidden stuff."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My morning recap as I wait for the sunrise... North Carolina had the Pisgah Forest fire near where my morning sun crests. The fire started at 5:30 pm and continued into the night...The raging fire grew relentlessly and provided a dynamic visual display. The sky was lit with lots of high drama for a while.

This morning, it looks like the fire is extinguished. 

Firefighters are heroes... I am waiting to see the damage at dawn... 

My morning view is lovely. No visible sign of damage from the fire. As you can see, we are still all green, alive with Spring!!! 

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Tugs At A Single Thing In Nature

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature,

he finds it attached to the rest of the world." 

 ~ John Muir

On very rare mornings, like this splendid morning, I go with my first shot. All the rest do not come close to this one. This one tugs at my heart.

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To Live Is So Startling!

"To live is so startling it leaves time for little else."
 ~ Emily Dickinson

Drinking coffee, sitting on my front garden step. Listening to the birds singing, so sweetly. I am waiting with my iPad, waiting for my sun... 

I am waiting for the sun to rise.

I worked until sunset last evening, moving mulch & rocks & dirt & weeds. I am now content to sit and admire my handiwork. I still have much more to do and I am loving the work, loving the results, loving this creative gardening.

Everywhere I look is a pretty picture, beauty beyond words, that celebrates this morning...  Oops gotta go, here comes the sun...

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Blessings

"Reflect upon your present blessings,
 of which every man has plenty;
 not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some."
~ Charles Dickens

Chilly outside. Just back from short walk. Saying goodnight to the very pretty setting moon... Photo.

Checking out the garden, sitting, waiting for the sun to rise. Everything is green, full of life and goodness. Photo.


 Here's our new day...

A Preparation Of The Soul

"Wisdom is nothing but 

a preparation of the soul,
a capacity, a secret art of thinking,
feeling, and breathing
thoughts of unity
 at every moment of life." 

~ Hermann Hesse

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Balance, Peace, and Joy

"Balance, peace, and joy
are the fruit of a successful life.
It starts with recognizing your talents
 and finding ways
to serve others by using them."

~ Thomas Kinkade

Unbelievable clarity. Big light, all golden, everything. Gold.

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Yours

"This life is yours.
Take the power to choose
what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love
what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest
and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life.
No one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy."

 ~ Susan Polis Schutz

Finally, through the billows of imagination, the rising sun, my sun, blazes... Have a wonder-full day, with good solutions marked by jazzy light...

Incomparable

Happy Birthday, Charelle

"Since you are like
no other being ever created
since the beginning of Time,
you are incomparable."

~ Brenda Ueland

Blue Serenity

"And joy is everywhere

it is in the earth’s green covering of grass

 in the blue serenity of the sky."

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Even blocked by clouds, the sun manages to paint the sky with passionate colors. Good morning world! Photo.

Down Through It

Good morning, Asheville

"You don't look back along time

but down through it, like water.

Sometimes this comes to the surface,

sometimes that,
 sometimes nothing.

Nothing goes away."

 ~ Margaret Atwood

Seconds from the sun's crest and air crackles with bird songs & delight. Photo.