I was headed out the door to photograph this flower in my neighbor’s front yard only to discover her about to dig it up. Glad I got there just in the nick of time.
Today John O’Donohue continues on the theme of beauty and the heart:
Compassion and attention keep the prism clear so that beauty may illuminate our life.
Here’s something a little different. I’m thinking in terms of the beauty of simplicity. Actually, I’m all out of flowers and my hydrangea is just on the verge of blooming. Meanwhile, I have been working on my still life chops. I see this one printed large and hanging on the wall of a breakfast restaurant.
And from John O’Donohue:
The heart is the place where beauty arrives; here is where it can be felt, recognized and shared.
Another Iris for you. I think this one may be my favorite so far.
Today’s quote is from Joan Chittister:
It is Beauty that magnetizes the contemplative, and it is the duty of the contemplative to give beauty away so that the rest of the world may, in the midst of squalor, ugliness, and pain, remember that beauty is possible.
It has been either rainy or windy the last few days so hard to get out and photograph. So, I’m still milking the trip to North Mountain Park on Sunday. But who doesn’t love a daisy.
Some days I have to read pages and pages to find a good quote from John O’Donohue. Lately it has been about every other sentence.
Beauty is such an attractive and gracious force precisely because it is so close to the fractured side of experience.
Many varieties of lavender are beginning to bloom in the area.
And from John O’Donohue:
When we endeavor to view something through the lens of beauty, it is often surprising how much more we see.
This is a new flower to me. I found it blooming in North Mountain Park and fortunately they had labels. Can’t wait to see it in full bloom.
From John O’Donohue:
Beauty shines with a light from beyond itself. Love is the name of that light.
And here is the blossom from yesterday fully opened and complete with real raindrops.
And today John O’Donohue speaks of the beauty of ageing:
Rather than being a fall away from beauty, ageing can be the revelation of beauty, the time when the inherent radiance becomes visible.
Today I decided it was time to break out the Lensbaby Velvet 85 and oh what a fine job it did on this blooming Dutch Iris at North Mountain Park.
From John O’Donohue:
Beauty is not all brightness. In the shadowlands of pain and despair we find slow, dark beauty.
Here’s another view of our beautiful Mount McLaughlin.
Today’s quote is from Nietzsche:
Beauty triumphs over the suffering inherent in life.
Today I found some pink Tillium in the forest. But no mushrooms. Well, I should say no morels…plenty of other mushrooms.
And from John O’Donohue:
The heart of all creativity is the awakening and flowering of individuality.