Painting

 

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

~ Plutarch

Earth..

 

 

 

 

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
― John Lubbock

Red....

 

... sweet,

and from my garden..

 

 

 

 

Have a great weekend!

 

 

Windy

Come Fairies,
take me out of this dull world,
for I would ride with you upon the wind
and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

Storks and Spring

 

 

Storks are fertility symbols and are associated with springtime and birth. Children throughout Europe and America are taught that the stork delivers newborns to their mothers. In some areas, it is thought that the stork can cause a woman to become pregnant merely by looking at her.

It was believed that the souls of unborn children lived in watery areas such as marshes, wells, springs, and ponds. Since storks frequented such areas, they were thought to fetch the babies' souls and deliver them to their parents. In Germany, storks found human infants called "stork-children" dwelling in caves hidden in rocky steeps called "Adeborsteine" or "stork-stones," and carried them to their expectant parents. Children who wanted a baby brother or sister were encouraged to sing their desires to the stork. Naughty little boys were carried in the bird's bill while nice ones rode upon its back.

Its migratory habits made it an emblem of the traveler. Along with other migratory birds, storks were biblical symbols of sensible backsliders who knew when to return to the straight and narrow. In the lands they departed from, storks were believed to become people and dwell as humans when they arrived at their winter destinations. It was thought that they cried human tears when hurt or saddened.

Storks are commonly believed to bring good fortune. In Germany, they were known as "Adebar" which means "luck-bringer." In the Netherlands, a stork nesting on one's roof is welcomed as a good omen, but in Morocco it is a sign that the house will be abandoned by its occupants. To kill a stork will cause one to have bad luck. The arrival of clean, white storks in the spring heralds a good summer but dirty storks are portents of a bad year. Storks, hurriedly abandoning their nests, are omens of great misfortune, pestilence, and war.

Because they are rumored to feed their elderly parents, storks are a symbol of filial piety or gratitude. They are emblems of immortality and longevity. Legend says they live an incredibly long time. When they are 600 years old they stop eating solid food and at 2000 years of age they turn black and keep on living.

 

Babies

 

 

 

 

 

"If having a soul means

being able to feel love

and loyalty

and gratitude,

then animals are better off

than a ot of humans!" :)

 

 

Rana Iberica

 

 

 

 

 

Any glimpse into the life

of an animal quickens our own and

makes it so much the larger and better in every way

(John Muir)

 

 

..

Every great dream

begins with a dreamer!

Always remember, you have within you

the strength, the pacience,

and the passion to reach

for the stars and to change 

the world.

.. back to snow...

... at the end of April!!

On holidays in my favorite place at the mountains, hoping to get the smell of spring, ... I found out that winter didn't want to go away.... sending us a beautiful snow storm.

Snow

 

 

 

When there's snow on the ground...

I like to pretend..

I'm walking on clouds!

 

 

Live ...

 

 

 

 

...  in the sunshine, swim in the river, drink the wild air.

 

Look around..

" That moment when you open your eyes,

and see the world around you as though it were

the first time."

Author: Katy Martin

I don't like formal gardens.

I like wild nature.

It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

 

 

Ice Bells

“The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.

It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night.

The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again.

When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart.

It is your immortal inspiration.”


― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Feliz Natal

 

 

 

 

 

   FELIZ NATAL

Merry Christmas
Frohe Weihnachten
Mboni Chrismen
Feliz Navidad
Vesele Vanoce
Hauskaa Joulua
Joyeux Noël
Eftihismena Christougenna
Boldog Karácsonyt
Shub Christu Jayanti
Buon Natale
Merii Kurisumasu
Gledelig Jul
Boze Narodzenie
Sarbatori vesele
Hristos Razdajetsja ou Rozdjestvom Hristovim
Ewadee Pe-e Mai
Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun
Veseloho Vam Rizdva
 Chuc mung Giang Sinh

Trail

 

 

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
― R.W.E.

 

Fog

I give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- J.L.H.

Untouchable

 

 

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.

I know I do .. :)

 

 

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND !

 

 

Streams

only when the last river has been polluted, and the last tree been cut down, and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money.

 

 

Up, where we belong..

Who knows what tomorrow brings

In a world, few hearts survive..

All I know is the way I feel

When it's real, I keep it alive.

 

The road is long

There are mountains in our way

But we climb a step every day..

 

Some hang on to "used to be"

Live their lives, looking behind

All we have is here and now

All our life, out there to find.

 

Love lift us up where we belong

where the eagles cry, on a mountain high

Far from the world we know,

Up where the clear winds blow.

 

(Joe Cocker)