Showing posts with label flower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flower. Show all posts

Aug 2, 2014

7.22.14

i like roses.  you cut them all the way back till you think they can't possibly live.  and then a few weeks later you turn around and they're blooming again.

7.19.14

lady slipper
 
i can now add "rare orchid hunter" to my list of skills!  found this little beauty growing wild in the rockies. 

Jun 26, 2014

6.19.14

i'm not sure which variety this is.  they have huge blooms, bigger than my hand, and smell just beautiful. 

Feb 5, 2014

2.3.14

this is just a reminder:
it's hard to be truly appreciative of what you have until it's taken away.  try though. try to appreciate it.  be grateful for what you have; not superficially grateful, but grateful as if in the very next moment you will lose it all.

Dec 11, 2013

12.8.13

"... a year ago i left the states; flying out o f san francisco and traveling to costa rica.  when i think of that period of time, those first couple weeks in pavones, it feels like a period of awakening.  after the isolation, tedium, drama of the hill; the community and cold of impending winter in town, the car shuffle as i drove to arizona and flew back the next day - i finally emerged in the warm, lush tropics.  everything was sunshine and freshness and bigtime adventure.  i had no idea at that time just how much that trip would change my life.  
it was a transitional period with no expectations or solid plans.  i'd unknowingly left one life but hadn't yet met the next.  i hadn't found where i was meant to go.  all i had was a house with a view, my yoga mat, my new friends, a quad that sometimes worked, and a property full of fruit trees.  i had the ocean, the jungle, adventure, fireflies, tucans, sunrise, anticipation and wonder.   i awoke there, from my hills cacoon, into pura vida.  i will always think of that time so fondly, full of flowers and colors and life..."