Today, I'm grateful for beauty...

The South downs around where I used to live
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Love is the only way

What beautifully lush greenery,
dear Buba!
We have that dainty little 'weed' here too!
I think that in the spring
it puts forth teeny tiny white flowers . . .
it sort grows tall and feathery,
and often enhances flowerbeds I think,
rather than overtaking them.
I must admit though,
that I have pulled up my fair share of them.
Your father's home is surrounded in beauty . . .
we also have the little roof plants.
As liliwings has mentioned
we call it hen and chickens here
because where there is a big one,
there will soon be little ones
gathering around . . .
I have never heard of them growing on rooftops though!
 
Thank you Diane,
for the the lovely ocean pictures . . .
yes, I think I would like to pull up a chair too!
The ocean is a place to heal . . .
. . . someday I will get back to the ocean . . .
 
Vermont is lovely
any time of the year,
is it not, liliwings?
Your pictures bring to me
the taste of maple 'syrup'
right out of the tree . . .
I tasted it once like this
and have never forgotten.
 
Your beaches are spectacular,
dear Jude . . .
some of your rocky coastlines
remind of the rocky beaches in Maine,
near where I used to live . . .
one of the saddest and happiest
times of my life . . .
and is that one
near the end,
the famous white cliffs of Dover?
 
I will try and post some photographs later,
as I am pressed for time this morning.
 
Thank you all,
for the eye candy and soul food
with love . . .
sparrow
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everything counts... ♥

ps.

Or this one!!!

I can see you woke up on the right side of the bed this morning . . .

everything counts... ♥

   
 
Liliwings,
The lake looks so serene we could go there too with our chairs!

I agree with Diane!

I can see you woke up on the right side of the bed this morning . . .

And dear Jude I agree with Sparrow,too
It seems you need this one :
 

These are The Seven Sisters cliffs
 

 
And these are the White Cliffs of Dover
 
 

 
 
 

Love is the only way

This is the city of Bath..
 

 

Love is the only way

Dear Jude, lovely pictures!
I like those with water ( river,lake,sea,ocean, never mind,sky and water beautiful combination...)
p.s. this time this little one seemed being of help with pictures

This a an old picture of the large house I didn't live in![:D] with my beloved Chanctonbury ring behind it. The owner of the house planted a ring of trees on the site of an ancient prehistoric fort, and this several hundred year old ring of trees was decimated in the Great Storm of 1987 along with millions of other trees.
 
After the storm...
 

 
 
 

Love is the only way

Love is the only way

Would anyone like to read a (true) good-night story? Okay, let me invite you to come with me to page 147, post # 2934 from Jude: How they remind me, those cliffs...

It was in the 1950s, when a young student had to earn money to be able to go to college. She worked as a waitress at a big holiday camp on the coast in Suffolk, England, serving meals on heavy trays and washing dishes and glasses. Work was hard, but free time was the sweeter for it. There was an international group of young people, and they knew how to have fun together, walking to some pub at night, singing all along the way, "Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon..." and "I´ve got sixpence, jolly jolly sixpence...". They didn´t spend much of their hard-earned money on drink, and walked home along the country-lanes singing again.

But one night was different. A young Englishman had the idea to dig a little cave into the cliffs and have a party there. We - I´ll change from "they" to "we" now - all went down to the beach in the afternoon and started digging, with our hands, and little by little a hole appeared in the cliff... Until we heard Gordon shout "d...!" and saw him lying on his back, covered by sand up to his chest, the cliff towering above him. I can still see his white face, and hear him say, "My cigarettes are in my pocket... Give me one before I go!" (It is strange with a foreign language, how one will remember single sentences connected to a situation). Let´s make the story short. Don´t ask me how we ever got him out from there! It still seems impossible to me, with the enormous mass of sand (or soil?) threatening to come down any moment and bury us all... We finally did get Gordon out, most carefully removing tiny amounts of sand. Supporting Gordon on either side, we walked a shaky young man up to the camp. We didn´t have a party that night. Needless to say: I still feel sooooooooooooo grateful!

Juliana

"Speak Peace in a World of Conflict" (M.B.Rosenberg)

Juliana!!!!!!!!!!!! How lucky was that? I've heard of a few children, usually boys, being caught out in just the same way, and not being so lucky.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

I'll try again! Before the storm

 
after......
 

 
 
 

Love is the only way

Another view of Bath city

 
 

Love is the only way

Here are a few 'before and afters' . . .
not the same type of storm as you had, Jude,
but a sudden afternoon rain shower
as seen from my study window . . .
 
rain pelting down . . .
see puddle forming just outside the window?
 

 
. . . and then the sun came through the raindrops . . .
 

 
and what I look out onto
(the drive)
when the window is dry . . .
 

 
The bottom of the window is level with the ground,
and the floor of my study
is about 3 feet underground . . .
it was quite a downpour!
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everything counts... ♥

Sorry I am so late posting snaps.  I have just gotten on the computer.

Yesterday is gone forever.Tomorrow may not come. Live Fully each moment today. Look for Good Things that Happen to you Every Day.

Juliana, thank you for your "lucky" story! This must have been pretty scary at the time!
 
Jude, your before and after pictures remind me of a storm in Austria that tore a huge hole into some beautiful woods. (Koetschachtal near Bad Gastein for Juliana)
 
Sparrow, I hope your window doesn't let the water in! Have you ever forgotten to close it in a storm, or left it open while away? I love the beautiful view from your window!
 
Edda

Peace and joy!

Sparrow, lovely pictures! You do have interesting windows.
 
Edda, was it the same storm? I know it went to parts of Europe after it finished with the south coast of England!
It was the tail-end of a hurricane from America which wasn't expected to come our way. We hadn't had such a storm for 200 years.
 
Jude

Love is the only way

This isn't the right thread for this really, but I just found it on Youtube and it is related to the before and after pictures posted earlier.
 
We don't get this sort of weather in the UK !!!
We lost our roof, but it was so lucky that it was in the night, which meant the death toll was low. Like the man in the video, I have never heard a noise like it, nor do I wish to hear it again!  Jude
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLUxsmADWrA
 
 
 

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Sparrow, I hope your window doesn't let the water in! Have you ever forgotten to close it in a storm, or left it open while away? I love the beautiful view from your window!
Edda

Oddly enough,
dear Edda,
the water doesn't get in
although it can splash in on the sill.
Now you can see how this window is so close to
where the Bambi's graze by . . .
 

Sparrow, lovely pictures! You do have interesting windows.
Jude

Yes, I guess they are,
and yes,
that is a giraffe.
 
Thank you Betty,
for posting more of Sandra's artwork.
I must say
that it is the sweet, new pinecones
that took my breath away
this time!
 
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everything counts... ♥

Today I am offering
some pictures
taken in the last few days . . .
 
This is one of my big outdoor pots . . .
 

 
a pink begonia in smaller pot . . .
 

 
a peachy begonia . . .
 

 
some globe thistles just cut,
and waiting to be put in water . . .
 

 
double daylilies,
captured
before the deer could eat them . . .
 

 
brown-eyed susans
just starting . . .
 

 
a baby fern
that sprouted up on its own . . .
 

 
a japanese painted fern
given to me
by a friend . . .
 

 
pulmonaria,
one of the few things
the deer don't like . . .
 

 
crabapples
seen on a little outing yesterday . . .
 

 
and coming home
to my work basket . . .
 

 
Blessings all,
and thank you for allowing me to share
a little bit of me
with love . . .
sparrow
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everything counts... ♥