June 30, 2012

Antipodean: being as different as possible

Brownies for Breakfast

Cute little Coffee Cup

Datura:

Exemplary

Finished reading The Glass Castle

Good Morning to ...

Hummingbirds

Ice cream

June

Kendall

Last day of June...

Meditation

Naps?

Oops... left my mister on all night :(

Pinks

Q

Reading Paulo Coelho's Aleph 

Starting a new book today

Friday, June 29, 2012

Antsy vs Adaptive
Buddha Nature
Cranky and Crabby vs Cartwheels
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Enough!
Finding my balance
Grumpy vs Grounded
Harrowing, Heart wrenching vs Happy
I am reading...
Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle
Kimchi

Lilac Breasted Roller:
Muckraking gadfly (p.248) : Gadfly journalism is the work of a journalist who upsets the status quo by

posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving to be an irritant. Whereas, Muckraking is the work of a journalist who investigates and exposes societal issues such as political corruption, corporate crime, child labor, conditions in slums and prisons, unsanitary conditions in food processing plants, fraudulent claims by manufacturers of patent medicines and similar topics.

Now... it's Friday, but it is all still...
Overwhelming
PRAXIS bunny is helpful
Q
Resilient vs
Spinning
T
U
V
Wicked headache
X
Y
Z

June 26, 2012

Above Average

Beautiful Breeze

Candid Cartwheels

Dazzling Day

Exceptional

From a Distance: Nanci Grittih version listen and watch here

Gorgeous Gardens

Hope

Intense

Jasmine

Kinda spinnin' a little

Lots of picture

Making the Most of each day

New growth, New pics

Optimistic Observations

Pie: Blackberry Swirl

Quiche

Redolent: exuding fragrance; scented

Spectacularly Sunny

Terrific Temperature

Volunteer: In gardening and botanical terminology, a volunteer is a plant that grows on its own, rather than being deliberately planted by a farmer or gardener. Volunteers often grow from seeds that float in on the wind, are dropped by birds, or are inadvertently mixed into compost. Unlike ...

Weeds, Which are unwanted plants, a volunteer may be encouraged once it appears, being Watered, fertilized, or otherwise cared for.

eXuding - what a great word!

Yarrow

Zucchini recipes

Summer Anyone??

Amalfi Coast in southern Italy is where my friend Jess and her family were. Click to see her blog post :)

Before and after...

Christine is often in my thoughts and prayers
Dew Drops on Darling noses... the tradition continues
Elizabeth slept in her new room last night
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Grandmother of Time
H
I
J
Karen Ann is too
Love this page: Green and Sticky
Morning Dew
Next?
O
Pip and Bunk together again
Quandry
R
Susan offered us a great deal
Take it
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Virtual Big Staff meeting this month
What fun!!
X
Yahoo mail - note to self: Check more often...
Zsuzsanna E. Budapest

Still learning 6/17/12 - updated July 2018

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” ~ Anaïs Nin

"Boldness" by Ted Nottingham video here
Cheerful Courage before the holy on in our unfinished state" min 17

Doshas plus five elements

Establish in being perform action" Bhagvad Gita 'yogastah kuru karmani'

Father's Day 2012 at Kristen's place in Richmond, VA

Gorgeous Gladious in the garden on Sarabande Drive

Hummingbird on Crocosmia

 source

"I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you all else melted away." ~ Rumi
Juggling still?  time to stop, be still and know
Kiwis  from "sunkissed kitchen"
Lunaria annua ("Honesty")       source

Monticello: "little mountain" - visited this lovely place with Kristen and Madeline

June 18, 2012

 Jack Kruse on LinkedIn

Orange raspberries as ground cover at the arboretum (I may have eaten a few, shhhh...)

 June 13, 2012

Petalodes: blending of flower petal and stamen

Queen Ann's lace, Sarabande Drive, June 2012:

Rubus rolfei (creeping raspberry) 

Spirit - True Spirit - Sivana Spirit

Truth expounded in the Vedas may be held by some to be a philosophy or a religion ... more 

 Lifepointe Church

Vata, Kapha, Pitta 
Walking that path of transformation
at a X road?
Yes!
Zest, balance, harmony

Ahhhh...... Arboretum......

Amethyst falls...

Beautiful name for the ornamental oregano

Cleome

Delphiniums

Ease

"...For He broke it for us in a garden /  Under the olive-trees / Where the angel of strength was the warden /And the soul of the world found ease.

God's Garden: THE Lord God planted a garden / In the first white days of the world / And He set there an angel warden / In a garment of light enfurled..." ~

Habranthus brachyandrus

"...I dream that these garden-closes / With their shade and their sun-flecked sod / And their lilies and bowers of roses / Were

"...Laid by the hand of God..."

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Ornamental Oregano

"... So near to the peace of Heaven / That the hawk might nest with the wren / For there in the cool of the even / God walked with the first of men..."

"... The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,–

One is nearer God’s heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth."  ~Dorothy Gurney (1858 - 1932)

Yucca

 Zephyranthes primulina (Rain lily)

Gorgeous weekend to appreciate and remember

Angie

Bluebird found on the same day I buried Angie, so I buried it too...

Cashima fruit notice new things, like this cool stamp:

Doing laundry and noticing...

Echinacea

Flowers

Gladiolus

"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower." ~ John Harrigan

"In my hallucination, I saw my beloved's flower garden... Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel, I saw myself as the source of existence. I was there in the beginning And I was the spirit of love ..." ~ Rumi

Ken is my hero: brave, strong, sweet and gentle

Lilac 

"My Father and I are one, This is the prayer without ceasing, the true worship of the soul.” ― Christian D. Larson,

Now listening again, as if for the first time, this quote is from

The Optimist Creed and is also at beginning of

The Pathway of Roses listen here

Quote
Rumi: "In my hallucination, I saw my beloved's flower garden... Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel. I saw myself as the source of existence. I was there in the beginning And I was the spirit of love ...
"Some things are true whether you believe in them or not." ~ Seth to Maggie in City of Angels

“There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my darling, What if you fly?” ~ Erin Hanson

Unconditional love
Vibration of "angel" now
Wish must be Wholehearted, not halfhearted.... The Pathway of Roses Chapter One
eXpression of divine prescence

Yearn for happiness... I am your moon and your moonlight too / I am your flower garden and your water too / I have come all this way, eager for you / Without shoes or shawl. / I want you to laugh / To kill all your worries / To love you / To nourish you /  Oh sweet bitterness I will soothe you and heal you / I will bring you roses / I, too, have been covered with thorns. ~ "Bittersweet" by Rumi

June 1, 2012 updated June 19, 2025 [13 years... wow!]

"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful,  full of wonder and excitement." ~ Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder

Container Gardens

p. 120

 click to enlarge and read :)

Father's Day 2025

Herbal Pathways p.114 Home Remedies and... p. 115

Iroquois "Three Sisters of Life - corn, beans, and squash" p. 12q

Ken's birthday  fun

 

Pelloni Farms to Pick up a Pie

"Question that will stop your hustle for wealth: If your worth was never in question, how would you move throught the world?" Emily Brown source

Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots: Gardening Together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy

Sharon Lovejoy's inspiring book was such a wonderful resource when I first bought it in 1999 or 2000 that I had to buy it again for Michelle and Kevin's daughter Josie's 2nd birthday present!! 

 formerly called "Weddings By the Vine" my dear friend Kimberly's business venture launched today in 2012

eXplorers kit