Peony's

The red one is supposed to grow to 10 feet tall, and the flowers to become dinner-plate size. Now where do you plant a 10 ft. tall peony?

This year it had 3 flowers. I still have it in a planter, afraid of the giant that  might come down that stalk maybe?

I had a Dream...

Everything was much more gold than this....and light, and airy, divine...I'd say divine.

It was so vivid, colorful, real. 

I was in my bed, and awoke to find a large branch to my right, and in front of me, beautiful light airy golden apricot colored blossoms, coming through from outside, and on these delicate golden branches, were apricot gold colored parakeets. It was so beautiful, so real, so precious, and light, and delightful.

I reached out and one of the parakeets landed on my hand.

I was undone by the beauty of these flowers, and the green leaves, and the refinement, and the beautifil birds that flew around in the blossoms, chirping happily.

So I looked online to see if I could find such a parakeet, and I couldn't, but I found some blossoms of umi, that I think look like the ones in my dream.

I also looked up dream symbols and this is what I found:

To dream of a chirping and/or flying birds, represents joy, harmony, ecstasy, balance, and love. It denotes a sunny outlook in life. You will experience spiritual freedom and psychological liberation. It is almost as if a weight has been lifted off your shoulders.

( This came quickly after a very trying process of relationship, in which I just let it go, realizing completely, and accepting, that I can't create a relationship alone, no matter what I do or don't do, so I let it go, and had this precious dream). One can try too hard.

Parakeets

To see a parakeet in your dream, indicates that you lack initiative and new idea. You need to be more unconventional and spontaneous. The dream also relates to dependency and immaturity.

( well few are as unconventional as I am, or as spontaneous, or have as many ideas as I do..so maybe it is that I am immature, I am a bit childlike.)

Gold

To find gold in your dream, indicates that you have discovered something valuable about yourself. This may be some hidden talent or knowledge.

( maybe I realized I am a bit childlike) but I always knew that...lol)

Blossom

To see a blossom in your dream, represents the beauty within your Self. It may also mean that your hard work will pay off in the end.

( I think this may be so)

Cement tiles..meandering over the world for inspiration..

.....Artists do That!







Cement tiles

Movie Time, get your popcorn ready...

The Smart adaptive crow population...

Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows

crows

I have a thing about tents, and for several years have been researching lavish ones, here is one such link that will enliven your imagination..

AfricanTents

Another tent site from India:

A Child's tent I'd like to sell my art work in, I think it is just the perfect size, and an attention getter. Wouldn't you mosey over to this fancy tent at a farmers market, etc?

The other one, well, a wedding tent, complete with fountain?

India Tents

..and scroll down to my blog links list, etc waaay down to the bottom of the page for new links with tents etc from India, and some other stuff you might like to see..as well as all my favorite blogs I read so far...

Emotions ...Envy

For Sale to Apple Computer..

cost..a pretty penny!

'Eve' By Sherry Stewart ©2005

...maybe Eve was envious...you can see it in her eyes...

she was out for a mac book all along!

Jerez

“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”

Bertrand Russel

“Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?”

Karen Brademeyer

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”

Harold Coffin

“I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.”

Oscar Lavant

Emotions...Sad

'Sad' by Sherry Stewart ©2005

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out,

 also keeps out the joy.”

Jim Rohn

“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning

 if it were not balanced by sadness.”

Carl Jung

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”

Erich Fromm

(some of my other 'art' work...)

Mountain Laurel Blooming Now

'Courage' 

I see Nepal has been here! 

Hi Anju! 

I love you!

ARISTOTLE

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Wedding, and Winged Vessel I and II

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. 
I didn't even marry you because I loved you. 
I married you because you gave me a promise. 
That promise made up for your faults. 
And the promise I gave you made up for mine. 
Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marrigae. 
And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that promise. 
Thornton Wilder

I was staying NE of here for a workshop last Nov. and was at a B&B. 

Met these lovely folks and was invited to the wedding three times. 

It was the most beautiful wedding in the snow.

Winged Vessel II

Maybe cheating, last week, these were vases, but aren't really vases, just used for that purpose, these are my ceramic sculptures

Winged Vessel  I

Wo/man does not live by bread alone II

“The attempt and not the deed confounds us.”

I love this quote by Shakespeare

A  clay boat of shells with a ceramic blanket and treasure chest

Vessels, show the way to an empty heart..

Sticks, beach glass, shells, a Mexican dog, a Tunisian Camel..

Brushes, meditation oil, flower press, vessel made by a friend.

  A book of  Walt Whitman

Cafe' Monday

I'm posting a little early just in case  you coffee drinkers get up before me, cause I'm wayy over here in Pacific Standard Time...

Please just post your comment here with link to your blog on Monday, and link your blog to this page.. umm the aroma! You can use The Cafe' Monday with heart in the sidebar if you like.

This is the Second Cafe' Monday

My contribution is Russian China  cafe cups, and Samovar.

The swirl is my favorite.

I think I'll have a cafe' now... an evening latte, with raspberry chocolate  flavoring...!

The Japanese word for Monday is getsuyōbi (月曜日) which means day of the moon.

From Darkness springs..

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

 CORITA KENT

Look Closely at this rhododendron

BENJAMIN DISRAELI
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Soft White Rhodie

Rhodie, red with bee

Elie Weisel
I have learned two lessons in my life:

first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones.

Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings;

hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Parfait Peony

FRITZ WILLIAMS
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.

My Rhodie Tree

RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Rhodie Tree II
SOGYAL RINPOCHE
...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

SIMONE WEIL
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

Blossoms begin as pink..

GEORGE ELIOT:

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Sky Watch Friday..pretty much the same year round here, but here goes

Snohomish sky morning

I'm a fog lover anyway..

I must refer you to my sidebar..

Camilla

.....where I have showcased some great bloggers...

please scroll down, and look at the end of my roll ( page) for more links;

.. like Tesla's video, a great find. 

Get your popcorn ready, it's a long show..

..and bear with me,

 I had tech difficulties with my link list on sidebar...

An operator problem I think!

(disappeared)

Stand by while being rebuilt..

Snow Geese up North during Tulip festival...

Amazing birds flock to the the fields en-route to Alaska for refueling..!
more photo's with our snow geese here, (close up) plus video

More snowgeese here

Rice and Kidney Beans w/ Mango salsa, yogurt..

onions, and stuff..lol and a sip of Turkish Cafe!
Comida...
Rice and beans will be experimented with much more around here in the future, I believe.
Rice has doubled in price, what am I waiting for, before I buy 100 lbs, for it to triple!?

It's scarce in the stores in large quantities..I'm thinking it might be time to do a real food co-op again!
Any takers?

Basmati brown, and kidney beans. Kidney beans are good for you, dark in color, high in value.
Spice the rice with curry..and pepper...yum, good food!

Vases

Do we ever have enough vases?

I think vases are like shoes for women..

I mean......, one cannot have too many shoes; flowers, or vases... to put the flowers in, right?

Well, story is, these aren't really vases, they are sculptures, and they leak.

 I put plastic bags in them so I could use them for tulip vases!

I like it they work well for tulips!

Now for the tulips....

Pretty double pink

Hot pink under a blue sky

White

Red Fields, Overcast

Vases needed for....daily bounty

Yesterday's Destination and home again... We have Sun!

Red Barn at LaConner

Mt Baker

(white snow capped volcano)

Lupins and poppy, with iris from my garden

This is my instant hanging basket.

It dies in winter; every spring, just add water..viola...instant hanging basket abloom!

 The fern, one of Washington State's large ferns gets larger every year.

I think it might win the competition with the ground cover!

  The moss is from the wilderness where I hike.

Monday's peony harvest, 2 varieties and snowball bush. 

This vase is an ancient vase from  Crete or someplace like that. 

It has no spout, and the handle is crude.

 I love the way it's marked like a melon. 

Perfect for the shape!

Another peony shot, home sweet home

(always nice to get a glimpse inside another's home, isn'it?)

The cow photo was taken in New Mexico at Lake Conscous one summer. 

She was lost and 'hiding' behind the salt cedar in the water.

I was staying on a house boat with my cousin and his family: wife,  three great kids. 

There were many house boats on this lake, large sprawling ones, each had a fishing hole in the floor to fish through. I had received a tour from a woman there and told the exotic history of the  hey days of the boat houses (parties, and families, neighbors, whoopla). I was going to write a story. 

I was entranced by the vision of it, and armed with photos, but they vanished from iphoto with all my photos one day.

Anyway, I am trying to see if I have a cd back up any where or blog references to share with Margy up on her house boat in the sunshine coast. 

( Powell River Books Blog)

Digging digging digging..

soooo many ways to garden!

This is a glimpse of Mt. Baker, one of our local Volcanoes.

I have hiked this mountain many times,  with many friends over the years. 

Actually had a blind hike once to go here, and that was an eventful story for sure..

Use your wildest imagination!

 I've backpacked into Chain Lakes,  (and other destinations) and camped, 

hopping from lake to lake like a dragonfly. 

I hope to revisit  again soon.

Ahh to climb out of a tent early in a morn, and reach for the espresso pot...

 Mt Shuksan is right up there by Mt Baker, (seen in the sidebar of my blog), which will take you to another blog with more photos if you like seeing what  

NW Washington looks like.

( got to get these weak knees in shape)

click photos to enlarge...