All the pretty little flowers

Chamomile and impatients

I love when all the flowers are blooming. I look forward to them every year. It gives me something that I can count on, something that I can enjoy just for the sake of looking. People plant flowers for different reasons. I plant them so that I have something to look at that pleases me. I like the way they look in different lights, I like their imperfections as well as their varieties in color. For me, there is nothing passive about planting flowers. I inspect them, I nurture them, I enjoy them. They are my bright spot of the day.

Storm Clouds

These are some really cool clouds that I saw yesterday morning. I was almost late (Ok, I WAS late) for work because I was outside watching the storm come in. The clouds were so dark and menacing, but the pictures don't even do them justice! In the minutes it took me to run upstairs and get my camera and rush outside with it, they had changed into something else. But they were still worth capturing. I love a good storm. I love the preparation of the earth and all it's living things as they wait. Anticipation is sometimes more exhilarating than the actual event.

I especially like the first picture. If you look closely and use your imagination, you can see a white heart in the clouds. It is sort of leaning to it's side, but still... I can see it. It may just be the artist in me, or the hopeless romantic... I could never give up on love, or stop believing in it, no matter how bad I was hurt at one time. It's just not in me.

great quote for the day

"Don't cry because it's over.

Smile because it happened."

-Dr Suess

dragonfly

I

see

them

arrive in the garden like electric blue trains,

like shiny- eyed fighter jets when

they

glide on the vaporous air.

Then

they

pause

and

turn

mid

way

to

me