For Everything There Is a Season

Last summer in 98 degree temperatures this yellow Canna flourished.

This morning in 37 degree temperatures, this Forsythia flourished.

Nature does remind us that for everything there is a season. Today's Affirmation; I am grateful for every experience in my life.

What Is Your Dream And Are You Following It?

This Pickerel Weed Plant (Pontederia) gave me many hours of joy this summer.Its beautiful green leaves float just above the pond's water. However when the blooms appear, they shoot about a foot into the air. It is truly a sight to see.

Recently, Roschell at Sagacious Rambling published an article on her blog that remind me why I research my post so extensive. I want the information I give to others to be entertaining, informative, and, to the best of my knowledge, correct. That is my dream. I hope you have your own dream-your own passion.

Like this Pickerel Weed bloom, our body may float just above the water. But, when we create, when we follow out dream, our minds shot a foot into the air. And the result is something beautiful and sometimes great.

Please feel free to post your dream along with your comment. If you cannot think of one, today might be a good day to slow down and focus on you.

"Follow your dreams don't let anything stop you."
Brenden Foster 1997-2008

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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

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Today's Flowers #14 What Do They Have To Do With Your Chronic Illness?

Visit Today's Flowers Community and view nature at its best, while opening up a whole new world of friends. There are two hobbies that the chronically ill seem to venture toward. They are photography and flower gardning. This community combines both. So you are very likely to find people, with whom, you have something in common.

This is our first offering to the Today's Flowers community. I love this beautiful plant because it was given to me by an elderly neighbor. It is the bloom of a Hosta plant. I have an ever increasing variety of the texture-rich leafy green Hosta plants. But, I had never seen one with blooms this big. When I saw her's, I just had to have one.

It was the middle of summer when I saw her beautiful Hosta garden. It was full and lush. Too pretty and too late in the season to be disturbed. So, she promised, if I came over in early spring of the next year, she would give me one. Well, it was worth the wait. She gave me several rhizomes. If you know Hostas, you know that simply cutting the rhizomes into smaller pices and planting thoes rhizomes in the spring, gives you a whole new flower bed. That is just what happened. As you can see, theye were beautiful.

Sometimes when we see seemingly health people going on with their lives, we want what they have-a healthy body and a productive life. Like my neighbors healthy and productive Hosta bed. However, it is not our time, yet. We must first rejuvinate our mind and then our body will follow.

If we are willing to eat the proper foods, go to rehabilitation therpy, take our medication correctly, perform meditation techniques and/or pray, etc... In short, delegently do what you know will help you to get to a fuller life. Instead of wanting and waiting, you will have YOUR own healthy and productive life.

Like I made up my mind that I wanted one of those beautiful Hosta plants, you must make up your mind what you want concerning your health.