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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/19/2009 8:32 PM ( #2861 )

To look on this site, just now, was the best part of this day - to enjoy on this beautiful photos! Have a good night and sleep well, l.Is.

To all of you who posted pictures today, I offer you the above quote in case you missed it.

Buba, what a wonderful gift from your Mom to have these living plants that thrived with her inner beauty and continue to help share her love for beauty with the world.  Such an extraordinary sign of the special love of your father for your mom that he still tends them so carefully.  Thank you so much for the exquisite photos but especially in this day of so many broken marriages, for giving us a glimpse of one whose love has lived on long after death.  Your parents obviously have passed their gift of a green thumb on to you.

Jude, I love seeing the picture of your town and the dancers.  Dear one, I have no doubts that there would be some capacity where you could join them.  Besides, it looks like only the men use the sticks.  With your total love of dancing and the fact that this is your "local" group, it sounds like a marriage made in heaven.  "If you were younger--" my response to that is--If not now--When?? Maybe at first you wouldn't be able to do all the dances, But I am sure you would be more than capable to do some.  How do you know if you don't try and if you don't, you will always wonder "what if".

Liliwings thank you so much for giving me evening eye candy for desert.  It truly is an amazing buffet of incredible treats.
 
T.O.  Is this the week of the new job??prayers continue for you, your success, and in gratitude for all the beauty you have given thousands by starting this thread.  May it return to you a hundredfold.

May each of us focus some time each day on seeing all the beauty in and surrounding our lives.  Blessings on this new week.

Yesterday is gone forever.Tomorrow may not come. Live Fully each moment today. Look for Good Things that Happen to you Every Day.
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/19/2009 9:11 PM ( #2862 )
Jude, I did not know that echinacia came in a variety that had a pink fuzzy middle.  But i agree that it does look similar to it. So maybe its a different kind of echinacia plant.
Betty, thank you for caring so much about encouraging people to post beauty.  Your encouragement and devotion  is a blessing. 
No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 2:25 AM ( #2863 )
so many flowers, so much beauty!!

i don't think my job will start this week, but i do think it will be a fantastic week because i started out sunday night looking at all these beautiful images so lovingly posted

betty,
thanks for sharing the "cheeky nanny" photos and thanks for your devoted enthusiasm for this thread

i wish my computer would let me post photos (it's the absolute bottom of the line one), but i may try to go to the library where i know i can

in the meantime, i'll just try something i can do so each of us can remember our own inner beauty inside us that is more than any photo
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 5:42 AM ( #2864 )
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 8:45 AM ( #2865 )
The pictures this morning
are wonderful!
 
I love the restaurant you went to, liliwings . . .
was it an open-air cafe?
Yes, it is my garden . . .
 
Thank you Betty,
for the blooms
from our 'cheeky nanny' . . .
she is with us in spirit . . .
 
I have globe thistles in my garden,
and will take a picture
when they bloom.
In the meantime,
here is some astilbe and monarda,
 

and once in awhile,
the monarda (bee balm)
has some double decker blooms
like this!
 

 
and some hosta in bloom for Edda . . .
 

 
Thank you Jude,
for more of your dancers.
Too bad that I cannot see you in the picture.
When I was 12 years old,
our family went camping at the Grand Canyon.
While on the north rim,
we watched a dance performance put on by Native American Indians.
It was done on a raised square,
and all the watchers stood in a circle
around the square.
A year or so later,
my father was browsing through our latest edition of National Geographic magazine,
and what do you know?
A National Geographic photographer
had been standing across the square from me
and taken a photograph of the dancers,
behind which were standing the watchers,
and my father and I were in the picture!
So you never know, Jude,
when the camera might catch you.
 
I too,
was thinking you were starting work this week,
Thankful one.
Another week to prepare . . .
you are very much in my thoughts and my prayers
 
 
You are so right, dear Isabella . . .
this room is such a good place to visit,
no matter what time of the day.
 
I am grateful
for the sharing of all that is beautiful on this thread,
and I am grateful for all of you
with love . . .
sparrow
     ♥
 
 
 
 
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 12:56 PM ( #2866 )
Here are my offerings taken today.
Great Willowherb is a British Wildflower and I have the normal pink variety as well as a white one in my garden. They grow to about 7ft tall with little flowers.


 
A new batch of heifers with Mr Bull through a small apple tree

 
 
Humble little Buzy Lizzies with fuschias

 
My Mother called these Moon daisies so I do too...happy memories
 

 
 

 
 

 
Everlasting Sweetpeas.....not scented
 
 
early Opal plums ready for picking
 
 
Soapwort...another English wildflower, scented and used to wash very delicate things. Museums still use it

 
My precious runner beans!
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Nicotiana
 

 
Evening Primrose

 
 
Mr Bull with his new Harem!

 
 
Suzie!!
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 1:00 PM ( #2867 )
Dear Liliwings, the rose is beautiful!
Dear Sparrow, I like to see pictures from your garden,
they look so peaceful and quiet.
And my dear Cheeky nanny, you already know what I and all of us
think about your pictures!Keep snapping and so will I
Thank you dear Jude for your picture-offering for today!
I almost felt scent of those beautiful roses!!!
I am sure cheeky nanny  will smile looking at Mr.Bull and moo cows... 
Sorry if I missed someone with comment about pictures,but there are so many posts and not enough time for reading them...
Sending many regards to you and all,
Buba,Goran's mom
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 1:33 PM ( #2868 )

 
Tigers...love them! She looks so content!
 
 
 
Love your garden, Lilsparrow!
These hosta's in bloom are beautiful!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jude,
So very beautiful are these....I can hardly imagine 7 feet tall! Wow!
Love the moo cows through the small apple tree snap!
Such a beautiful garden! AHHH.......
 
 
T.O.,
something i can do so each of us can remember our own inner beauty inside us
 
Such an heart you have....wisdom in your words and a beautiful gift given this day...thank you!
 
Peace, Love and Joy.....for your day!
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Grateful to be here!
What a gift and connection builder!
Love and Gratitude,
Love who You Are
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 2:54 PM ( #2869 )

More from our "cheeky nanny" 





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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 4:13 PM ( #2870 )
Thank you, Sparrow, for the blooming hosta!
 
The leaves of ours are white-edged but the flowers look the same!
Of course, ours are not surrounded by a garden, just the leaves remaining from the peonies and some weeds which look rather decorative!
 
Love,
Edda
Peace and joy!
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/20/2009 4:16 PM ( #2871 )
Dear Jude,
 
Your flowers are lovely! They just appeared full size!
 
 I am still waiting for Sandra's to "grow"!
 
Love,
Edda
Peace and joy!
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 1:24 AM ( #2872 )
dearest ones,

thanks for all the exquisite photos - they provide vitamin f which is from flowers and vitamin b which is from beauty

may each of you know how much each of you is loved and appreciated
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 1:32 AM ( #2873 )
Jude  the picture of the tigers is priceless. Thank you !!
Your pictures are amazing.  7 foot tall plant?  beautiful.  The sweet peas look like a kind of orchid.  Suzie, the other cows and the bull are beautiful. Thank you for the feast for the eyes
 
Sparrow double decker bee balm?  I never heard of it.  Its beautiful. Thank you
 
T.O thank you for your words of beauty
 
Betty the photos you posted are so beautiful. I love white flowers.  well i love all flowers


the above is called a Epiphyllum

the above is a White peacock in Bali Bird Park, Bali.

Orchid in Amazon Rain forest
 
 
 
 
No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 7:28 AM ( #2874 )

I am still waiting for Sandra's to "grow"!


Edda, waiting is so hit and miss I always save them to my computer so I can see them, and then delete.
 
Sparrow, this is why I've only just seen your latest pictures. I forgot to go back and look at them!!
The Hosta flowers are so pretty and the Bee Balm 'double-decker' looks so cute!
 
Liliwings, the white peacock is spectacular....is it one of your own pictures?
 
Love to all,
Jude
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 8:05 AM ( #2875 )
The newest additions are just beautiful!
I once had a white peacock feather,
and thought it had been bleached . . .
I didn't know
that peacocks 'come in white'!
Thank you liliwings.
 
Yes, I forgot to mention your tigers too, Jude.
. . . makes you want to bring one of the little ones home.
I am partial to your moocows though . . .
 
Oh Sandra . . .
the white flowers with blue sky in the background
are just exquisite . . .
 

dearest ones,

thanks for all the exquisite photos - they provide vitamin f which is from flowers and vitamin b which is from beauty

Thankful one

I think,
Thankful one,
that they also provide us with vitamin L,
I should think . . .
for love
 
These offerings are in response to you, Edda,
who said that your hosta have white edges . . .
my hosta family
includes many different variations.
I did not know there were so many . . .
yellows, blues, white trim, dark trim,
big leaves, small leaves,
wide leaves, narrow leaves . . . . . . . . . . .
until I started looking . . .
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
and last but not least . . .
the little 'birdhouse'
I bought on half-price day
at our local hospital's thrift shop . . .
and it hangs where I can see it
when I wake up in the morning.
 

 
I do believe
I have had my vitamins this morning
and am ready to face the day
with love . . .
sparrow
   
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 8:33 AM ( #2876 )

I do believe I have had my vitamins this morning

 
I think I have had mine too after all those lovely Hostas....so pretty!
But the prettiest of course is the last picture of the birdhouse and your magic window.
 
Jude
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 1:11 PM ( #2877 )
Sparrow:  to quote Jude: 

But the prettiest of course is the last picture of the birdhouse and your magic window.

I do beleive that your home and surroundings are magical.  Surely a magical co creation with nature and you.  Thank you for for photo series that I will name "study of hostas"  I am not very familiar with them.  So i had no idea there were so many.  I just always marvel when looking at your photos how magical your home and land is.
 
Jude, The peacock was a photo I found online.  wouldnt it be amazing to see one of those in person (peacock) though !!
 
T.O Bless you.  I am so happy that you will soon be beginning a new job that excites you.

 


to me, the below is beautiful. Although it is not a photograph.  

 
No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 1:21 PM ( #2878 )
Hello friends,
thank you for more and more pictures and beauty !!!
Here is one interesting tree, it have thrawn it's own brak(is it right word,correct me please if not),but still looks beautiful:
 

 
and these are pieces of it's brak on the ground:
 

 
~with love to all nature beauty fans~
              Buba,Goran's mom
 
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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 1:24 PM ( #2879 )

I do beleive that your home and surroundings are magical.  Surely a magical co creation with nature and you

Sparrow dear,
ME TOO, think the same!!!!

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Re:Today, I'm grateful for beauty... - 7/21/2009 1:36 PM ( #2880 )
Buba !!!!   I thought for sure you photoshopped this photo.  But you didnt.  This is real.  Amazingggggggg !!!  you are the queen of the cell phone cameras.  And we must also give some credit to this tree.  How truely amazing.  did you know that Joel Gray, best known for his role in the movie and play Cabaret, Has done a book of cell phone photographs?  Its called 1.3  images from my phone.  (the 1.3 is the number of megapixils on the phone) Joel Gray 1.3 Images from my phone
Wow this insert link thing really does work.  The link itself was 9 lines long before I edited it with that insert link function here.
I just love new toys !!  love, liliwings
No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.
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