Blue Skies

When our friend Winifred came indoors again, 

after looking around the garden in a blink of winter sunshine, she was singing.

"You sound happy, Winifred," I remarked.

I am a happy person.  I have everything I need.  That doesn't mean I have everything I want ~ but then that's a different thing entirely."

What a sensible way of looking at things.  As Ganhi said "Earth has enough for every man's need, but not every man's greed."

46 Days of Offering It Up

Mondays

No caption needed when you feel like this on a working holiday Monday.

Face Like Stone

Setting

Macademia

 Macadamia integrifolia

COFFEE!!!!!!!!!

 Although I'm not a lover of Kona Coffee, I do love my bean!

Love to the Lilly

Gridstone

Flying home over Salt Lake City

I have never liked the sound of the old expression about "keeping your nose to the grindstone", but I do see the point of a rather similar saying which I heard for the first time recently:

"Life is a grindstone.  Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends entirely upon the stuff you're made of."  ~Francis Gay, Friendship Book 1994

Beach

 I love that as you look closer you actually see what makes up the beach.

Pretty Bird

Butterscotch loved to be scratched under her wing

Koi and Lillies

 nishikigo: brocaded carp

Silversword

 Argyroxiphium sandwicense subsp. macrocephalum, 

is a rare plant, part of the family Asteraceae. 

 The silversword in general is referred to as ʻāhinahina in Hawaiian (literally, "very gray").

Motlen Rock

Exotic

 Gecko

 Turtle

Urchin

Variety

 Milk

 Nuts

Fruit

Go Bananas

 B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Wiapio Bay