Category Archives: Beauty

Floral Friday 6.21.13


Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” – Denis Waitley

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Floral Friday 3.1.13


Those who do not weep, do not see.                                                                 … Continue reading

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Jubilee Project, Fireflies


According the the CDC: “March 29, 2012 — One in every 88 U.S. children — and one in 54 boys — has autism, the CDC now estimates.” Recognizing and diagnosing Autism spectrum disorders has come so far in the last twenty … Continue reading

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Floral Friday 11.16.12


It’s been a challenge to find subjects for my floral Fridays, what with being away and fall in full swing.  I went to a botanical garden a few days ago, and shot some flowers that were kept in the greenhouse … Continue reading

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The Thing I Learned From the French…


They talk.  Face to face.  And they walk.  Arm in arm.  It’s not weird.  It’s not gay (is that the right term?).  They seem happy and full of life.  One day we took the metro to Versailles.  On the way … Continue reading

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Rock Climbing and Old Age


Some of you might have wondered about the two landscape photos on my Floral Friday post.  Those photos were taken on a Via Ferrata Climb at Nelson Rocks in West Virginia on Wednesday. My 49th birthday was Tuesday, and hubs … Continue reading

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Floral Friday 10.5.12


2 Corinthians 4:16-18  So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all … Continue reading

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Floral Friday 9.28.12


Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.        – … Continue reading

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Floral Friday 9.21.12


The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke  

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Floral Friday 9.14.12


Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955 “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” Indeed.  I just wish it weren’t so … Continue reading

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