Love Poem of Rumi

You are 

 The Gift

The intellectual is always showing off,

the lover is always getting lost.

The intellectual runs away.

afraid of drowning;

the whole business of love

is to drown in the sea.

Intellectuals plan their repose;

lovers are ashamed to rest.

The lover is always alone.

even surrounded by people;

like water and oil, he remains apart.

The man who goes to the trouble 

of giving advice to a lover

get nothing. He's mocked by passion.

Love is like musk. It attracts attention.

Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

Kulliyat-e Shams, 21

Valentines Day is about Having a Heart, not breaking them.

Hearts can be Broken ....it's Appropriately National Heart Month.

February is heart Month

Did you know people can die of a broken heart? 

Sure..

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/Cardiomyopathy/Is-Broken-Heart -Syndrome-Real_UCM_448547_Article.jsp#mainContent

Read about it. And consider these songs telling it like it is..

http://youtu.be/dz7BGlgb5Do

Christina Perri

Jar of Hearts

Losing Touch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESwz6tnYE4U

Blow me one last kiss, Pink

http://youtu.be/KniXq_d-o4E

Broken heart

http://youtu.be/abxKZhcmR8c

Somebody that I used to know

http://youtu.be/Y8RPtPFfGvM

Try, Pink

http://youtu.be/fdHCec23BKE

Locked out of heaven

http://youtu.be/e-fA-gBCkj0

Just Breathe

Pearl Jam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhORXmgYbS4

To name a few current songs. For those who're thinking of lying, or believing some bodies lies. Consider who you're fooling is only yourself. But who you hurt may come back to you in a big karmic way. 

As a friend says, karma's a _ _ _ _ _!

Don't break hearts. ...

Love doesn't just...

Hand out phone numbers in an REI store

believing whatever they want to hear and go around deluding themselves of being :

Beautiful (in particular)

41

And having a PHD

"Spank"

Or stuff like that.... Can't find That song? 

But basically deluded people  usually are deluding only themselves. 

And then hurting other and,.. themselves, in the end.

Valentines Day is about Having a heart, not about Breaking them!

Fuchsia, and..How to make a Valentine cake thats Art!

Out In the cold, still blooming away..

Valentines Day soon..

What I do is make a 1 layer red velvet cake, and slice in into two cakes.
(Or make two and end up with a valentine cake for a neighbor).
Then I make a cream cheese or other icing, and fill between the two.

 I use rice paper to make a cut out doily of boys and girls holding hands, and in such a way that there are hearts between them.

These are in a circle and you can do this by folding paper that is round in half, half again and again, about 4-6 times. Then I cut with very sharp scissors into the paper up and down the length and viola I get this beautiful doily that I can't find my photos of now, but you'll figure it out if you try it.

Then lay the doily on to the cake top and sift powdered sugar over it, remove doily and you've got a piece of he/art for your beloved!

Winthrop WA. 5 days for my Birthday!

Kelly's Cafe in Mazama near the trail.

Nice painting I like a lot..

3 Fingered Jacks Cafe

Icy Trees

Miso

leaves and berries with olives..and cukes.

Snow Geese, Mt Baker, Skagit Valley

The Snow Geese are back down from Alaska. 

The Trumpeter Swans are as well. 

Also in the right area you will find the bald eagles wintering here.

I have photos here of snow geese, some swans may be mixed in.

 The swans are nice to watch in spring when mating dances go on, and I love their honking.

Baker at sunset is a true gem.

Methow Valley

Snow Country

It's cold here! 

Colder than in Yellowstone where snow is dry, powdery,

 and yet altitude is almost painful there, dryness is so noticeable.

Here frost forms over night even if theres no snow, and it clings to trees like this
becoming  quintessentially
 frozen, and beautiful against a blue sky in particular.

Mule deer, my favorite kind of deer has big ears!

I love icicles, in my home in PA they hung to the ground, 

were huge, and clear , and shortly used as weapons, very shortly. ^^

 It's beautiful here. But I have but gotten many photos.

We enjoy visiting the Snow Geese that Visit in The Skagit Valley

I added this Mt Baker photo For City Daily Photo, which this blog is a model of, even tho Mukilteo is a tiny city, it is a portal to my wider world of travel. A video apparently shows up blank on the CDP site. 

A view of Helena Montana....snow. Mountains. A few houses.

Where the Antelope roam

The Little Blackfoot River, Montana.

Snowy scape and sky.

Seattle tonite

Presents,...

A present. Under the Tree. For me!! From Kobo!!

Beginning...Crissmiss! Joy to the World!!

A string of lights brightens a beautiful tree. So green.
Tomorrow we will add a string, and for tonight some birds were added.  A few ornaments.
But really have to wait for more lights.
I think this calls for some homemade cookies.
Milk.
A little cheer
An intimate party;
To celebrate this upcoming event.
Dancing and singing!
Peace and Joy!

It's Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas..

@ Mt Rainier...

Crissmiss Cookies. I live with the Cookie Monster

I made these little cards as ornaments and for gifts one year

My daughter made this angel in HS

The black Madonna

Dear Blogger, for Christmas, I need a border for my Header Photo

The Thing is, I need it Now! Ok?

One early present is all I ask..

As you can see, I can't make this design work, without a border..

Yours Truly,

Sherry......

PS.

I know you can do it....

....and I have been a very 'amazingly' good girl, under the most challenging 
circumstances "give or take a time or two"!

Apologies to Leonard Cohen

**Oh, and a font between small and normal would be nice..

Northgate Seattle.