Shine on

Marsha’s WQ #8: Below What? Where?

I suddenly thought of water drops when I read how does the word below inspire you. Well it did.

True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl
Anamika Mishra

When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness
Mehmet Murat Ildan

Words of Wisdom – Y23 #2

Paulas Words of Wisdom

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web
telling a story
of moonlit hours
of weaving and waiting
during a night.

Carl Sandburg

Admission: the way the quote is written is what I did to it. It was just one long sentence plus it started with the word Poetry
Sorry Carl

It’s in the bubbles

Marsha’s Wednesday Quotes#4: Envelop or Envelope

The mood
was set….
candles lit….
champagne poured
spa bath
bubble bath
liquid….
poured in….
turn on
the jets…..

“It’s important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It’s important to take part in what life’s all about.” 
Lena Olin

“Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear.” 
Deepak Chopra

“Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.”
Rabindranath Tagore

Words of Wisdom #5

Paula’s WOW – Words of Wisdom #5

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu

Inspired by Paula’s fabulous photo and quote.
This is an Australian Native Snail, a Soft-shelled Snail. Perhaps a Helicarion species has a body that is too large to completely withdraw into the shell; as a result they are referred to as semi-slugs

It’s in the elements

Terri’s Sunday Stills: The Power of the #Elements

Quotes about Earth element (27 quotes)

Water“All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.” Kabir

Air“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” Thich Nhat Hanh

Fire“Set your life on fire, seek those who fan your flames. ” Rumi

Earth“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” Mahatma Gandhi

“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you” – Eckhart Tolle

Here they come

Marsha’s #WQWWC #41 Writers Choice or Order

Every year they appear on the trees, fence posts, blades of grass or anywhere a tree used to be around seventeen years ago. I love finding them as did my daughters who loved to wear them as brooches. It will soon be Summer and their constant singing will ring out through the bush, a sound of an Australian Summer.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.”
― Henri Poincaré, Science and Method

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

“Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

Masked

Debbie’s quotation inspired image

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

Oscar Wilde

If anyone has encountered a Masked Lapwing, they will give you the truth. Come near my nest and look out. Trouble is Masked Lapwings, or Plovers as they are generally known, lay their eggs anywhere they want. I have seen nests in the middle of football fields or on the grass verge on the side of a road.

They will defend their right to be casual egg layers quite violently. They have spurs on their wings which can be quite nasty if attacked.

Connected

Debbie’s quotation-inspired image photo challenge

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We may be the same
but we are different
from the same connection
we exist

We are connected
here
there
everywhere
Some connections prickly
some connections smooth
but there is always
love