Saturday, November 15, 2008

Living

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dedication and affection to
TODAY'S FLOWERS








It is hard not to smile when you look out your window and see this pink verbena being visited by a beautiful Swallowtail butterfly.


The white flowers are mums that returned from previous years. The verbena are teturns aswell.


On this bright summer day it is not hard to be grateful for just being alive. And, deeply and profoundly accepting yourself-just the way you are.


Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling. With the mistaken belief that we cannot bear the pain. But we have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain. Kahlil Gibran

Together, the blogging community is feeding the hungry and funding mammograms. FREE! No money required. We CLICK through to the Breast Cancer site and the Hungry site. That is it. Just click the BLUE and PINK buttons to the right of this blog post. You have done your part. Thank you for caring!

36 comments:

DeniseinVA said...

Your photo made me smile, it is beautiful, lovely flowers and a lovely butterfly. Thank you!

Mckay K said...

Denise, I have accomplished my goal. Thanks for the visit.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing what you have been going through. I think people need to educate themselves with health & illness information, and thus including the experience from people who suffer from certain illness.

Warm wishes,

Our Home Remedies
http://www.ourhomeremedies.com

Mckay K said...

Home-When I first became disabled, that is what kept me sane-reading about what people like me were doing.

My goal with this blog is to return the favor.

Be well

Jan said...

Great capture.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful flower!

Anonymous said...

WOW! Such a beautiful flower with the butterfly!~

Mine is, HERE. Have a great week ahead!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful cpature of a pretty butterfly!

arleena said...

Pretty flowers and a lovely butterfly.

♥ Denise BC ♥ said...

hello, McKay
A great moment, a visitor in her garden enjoying linfo these flowers. I am grateful to share and participate in the Meme more fragrant web.
hugs, Denise, Santilli & Pupo TF-Team

Anonymous said...

what a pretty flower with a cute butterfly...thanks for sharing..

Connie T. said...

Beautiful picture. Yes the D80 is hard to learn. I am going to read a lot of books to learn more about it. The program I used to animate is called Animator just run that name and download it. It is easy just use a web cam and click each picture on the animator program. But do 8 frames per second, the standard 15 it super fast.

Sandra said...

Such a lovely photo! When I'm looking at it, I can feel the Sun beams in my room (which is something to be taken very serious since we are deep in foggy November) :-). Thank you for your visit and greetings from Croatia.

ChrissyM said...

Beautiful flower and butterfly. Lovely post.

Pat - Arkansas said...

Yes, the verbena and butterfly are a lovely combination. Thanks for sharing your photo.

Carletta said...

What a wonderful capture!
Beautiful verbena.

Rune Eide said...

The pink flower seemed very appropriate in your case. I know about serious disease since I'm alive only due to the fact that someone else is not.

However that may be - I found no blue or pink spots to press. There were headings, but nothing else.

david mcmahon said...

Thanks for the visit - what a tranquil shot this is.

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

McKay: What a neat flower with the butterfly, good job.

Rosamaria said...

I liked very much your picture.

I already have the cancer site and I'm taiking de hungry one to my blog.

Thanks.

Unknown said...

Beautiful, love verbena and butterflies.

Flying Solo said...

Really fantastic picture! Thank you, I love butterflys :)

Speedcat Hollydale said...

Going to click!!

Great photo :-)

Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardens said...

Very beautiful picture with the lovely Verbena and Chrysanthemum and what a surprise bonus a swallow tail butterfly,that is wonderful. Have a lovely week.

Rambling Woods said...

I don't think I have been here before because I would have remembered. I am sorry to hear that you are dealing with so much. I do find the one thing about living with a chronic illness (MS) that I don't take things for granted and I tend to notice small things that others might not....Thank you visiting my hummingbird moth and flowers post..
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Lilli & Nevada said...

How beautiful, Love how you captured the butterfly as well

Arija said...

Lovely flowers for you to appreciate. There are so many little things in life to bring us joy.

If you wish, check out my Thankful Thursday post

Cathy said...

Two of my favorite things: flowers and butterflies. You captured both beautifully.

Anonymous said...

I like the verbena very much. They flower so long! And when you visited my Flower for Today begonias, you asked if they come back. In California they did, but here in Seattle even with coddling and deep mulch, only a few. But so welcome! Thanks very much for visiting.

antigoni said...

Beautiful flowers and words.

Anonymous said...

Great shot and text. Congratulations.

Leora said...

Verbena is another flower that I would love to have in my garden!

My therapist is always trying to get me to feel certain things and not run away. I've been doing the therapy thing for, oh, over twenty years! Good luck with all your own struggles.

Redzlan aka Tabib said...

Great moment great picture of flowers and butterfly.
Great Blog Mckay K!

Christine said...

That is quite a photo McKay. Caught perfectly.

Mckay K said...

A great big THANK YOU to everyone who commented on the Living post this week.

I definitely enjoyed visiting everyone.

Anonymous said...

I love flowers and butterflies flying and kissing on the flowers.
thank you for the comment in my post :)