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Central, FL, United States
I am a former teacher, aspiring artist, inveterate traveler This blog is about my Florida garden experience and its expression though poetry, philosophy, photography and art. It includes my other creative endeavors. Here can be found posts about travel to other gardens around the world. My garden is a half acre in zone 9a which includes a large water garden. I have mostly a shade garden because of the huge live oak. To keep things easy, I love to grow bromiliads,ferns,gingers and other tropicals. I need to have a low maintenance garden. In the summer we usually have plenty of rain and it transforms into a jungle. I have converted my swamp into the water garden where I grow irises, waterlilies, papyrus, radigan, spikebush and swamp lily. I also grow citrus (lemon,key lime,grapefruit,tangerines,pineapple,and loquats). Me?...Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid)

Jan 10, 2014

my resoultion? to write 2014 on my checks!



Regardless of the justifications you give & treat yourself to... , I hope all of you - "new year -new me types" strive for self care, honest and pure friendships, and relationships based of love- and not based off the fake realities of your mind. These delusions of what you hope for instead of what's there, where you and your puppet (ego) master focus more on everyone else and less on self. To change the world you must start within. But you must first BE HONEST with yourself.

  Tiffany Luard







May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.”
D. Simon

 

Since I was in NYC for Hercules, I thought I would post some snow pictures since I live in Florida and never get to post it. The weather quieted the city. The wind was so bitter that to stay out would freeze the air in ones lungs.   I could walk only one to three blocks. The pigeons were grounded and there were no horses in the park.  I thought you would like to see pictures from our cab.