The Beauty of a Second

I could watch this video all day - the calming, zen-like effect it has on me is...nice.




I’ve thought about how we live our lives, in seconds. A second can change everything, for good or bad. There have been many seconds that changed my course, turning me in an unexpected direction. There are those seconds when I wish I could put time on hold. And there are those times when living hurts so much that you search for those seconds that give you hope and happiness.

I took this picture of a picture hanging in the corridor of the hospital a week ago. Sadly, I did not get the name of the artist to give credit to him or her. I will get the name of the artist when I get the chance so I can post photo credit. It's not a clear photo, it was too dark to get a great one. Still, I LOVE it!

It is such a beautiful piece of art. I would love to have this hanging in my home - it projects a sense of truth, honesty, and purity.

Road to Enchantment

Source: thishopelessromantic.tumblr.com via John on Pinterest

 

 

I have no doubt this path would lead to a land of magical and enchantment. May be this is the road to Heaven? I kinda feel like you would find Sleeping Beauty somewhere in all this beauty.

 

Friday Goal: Do something for someone today who you know will never be able to repay you.

 

Came and Went

We have had zero winter this year, so far. This morning the most beautiful snowflakes fell, beautiful snowflakes like I haven't seen in a quite a few years - BIG and FLUFFY white snowflakes = MAGIC in the air.

I was thrilled, it was beautiful for a short time and then...gone. Damn, sounds like my dreams. :)

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ”

― Virginia Woolf

pain and beauty...

“Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows”  ― Nick Bantock

One Of A Kind

Sunday I went out to find some willow branches, as always I took my camera with me and found a few things to photograph. And as always, nature provided so much beauty to gaze upon. Trees stand so confident and majestic, without complaining or boosting. Their conditions are not always perfect - often they are crowded or standing in a field alone. I find even what others would see as ugly trees, to be very beautiful. I'll share those later on this week.

(Sixpence & A Blue mOOn Photo)

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Millel

Mario Testino Photography {Kate Winslet}

Kate Winslet happens to be one of my favorite actresses! I love her look and her style and…ninety-nine percent of the time, I love her movies.
Mario Testino captured perfection in the way only he can do. Not being a big fan of the camera myself, never was, probably never will be, I think I would enjoy being photographed by him.

Unpretentious Beauty

A couple of years ago this plant was not doing so well on the outside of the fence, so, I moved it. Last year, there were no blooms but this morning, it presented a lovely surprise; and beautiful it is! Along with some, (what I think to be great shots) are some nice quotes to go with the photos.


Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It's not a physical thing. ~Sophia Loren


When you look closely people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful.


The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.


For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ~ Ivan Panin


By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flowers. ~Tagore

Perhaps, when we feel we are stagnant, going nowhere - we just need to be transplanted?

night moon

Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ~Oscar Wilde

~it's just a number~

A photo I took last summer of a most beautiful butterfly. He hung around for 3 days; then moved on.

I love this quote...

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand: "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French

One of the things I noticed when I moved back to the U.S. after living in Europe for 10 years, that Americans are much more hung-up on age than Europeans. One of the first things people ask you when you strike up a conversations is 'how old are you'? I cannot recall a European ever asking me my age.

If it were up to me, I would not even know my birthday! I'm serious. It's not that I care for other people knowing my age - I just refuse to allow it to define what I like, who I am friends with, what I wear, how I wear my hair, or what I do.

For certain, life is too short to give anyone power over our choices!