This post is about the feel good power of flowers.
Need a Lift? Mother Nature’s Here to Help…
The Time Traveling Hibiscus
With ephemeral traits hallmarking the gate to past and future, have you considered gifting a hibiscus for the New Year? Once it's Gone, it's Gone You know the sayings, "Out with the old and in with the new," or "Here today, gone tomorrow." True for so many things --- like each year, our youth, good …
Good Morning Mother Nature
One of my favorite morning activities is walking through the garden discovering what's bloomed then cutting a basket full of flowers to become a bouquet. Focusing solely on colors, textures and scents quiets my mind while the warming sun and cooling breeze brushing my skin soothes my HSP spirit. Mother Nature offers this gentle good …
A garden then and now…
No surprise to me, this inspirational sentiment about a garden's virtues. What is surprising though, is that it was written by the Persian poet Saadi who lived more than 700 years ago. Can you imagine the beauty he beheld then, before industry dominated our planet? If I find a garden breathtaking now, I wonder what …
Nature Teacher: Letting Go
Magnolia petals falling one by one teach us how to gently let go.
Who’s to Say?
Sometimes things don’t work out as we planned. Sometimes, oftentimes, gifts appear in unexpected places or they don’t look like what we envisioned. We think it should be something else and too quickly pass it by. When I was very young --- about five or six, I desperately wanted a kitten. What kid doesn’t at …
Frantic Flowers
Infinity
When I look, really look at the variety of colors, shades, textures, patterns, sizes, etc., etc., etc., in the garden and mountains beyond, I am stunned. Consider, for just a moment, the endless shades of pink. How does that make you feel?
