~abundance~

"Abundance is not something we acquire.

It is something we tune into."

(Dr W. Dyer)

The bower...

And we humans think we're so special...

Watch this now!

The Australian bowerbird decorates his house (this is definitely something other than a nest) with flower blooms, beetle wings, acorns...

And David Attenborough has to have the sexiest voice I've ever heard...

Thanks to Resurrection Fern for always posting the most interesting little things...

Pink and orange in the snow...

Finally, pictures that don't date from six months ago. The snow and pot-bellied stove can attest to that...

Paperwhite jam...

Some paperwhites I started a few months back... I eventually separated them all and put them in individual containers, but I snapped these just before I ripped them apart. Can anything look more alive than this? Just looking at these pictures helps me get through the winter...

I wish I could've let them bloom like this...

Yuken Teruya...

Stumbled upon these on d*s...

I like to think of myself as a pretty creative person, but the opportunities to create something unique and meaningful that some people find just floors me sometimes. I throw out a couple of these a week... And never thought twice about them. The artist, Yuken Teruya, has other equally amazing pieces on his website, well worth the detour.

Yellow at Fuchsia...

It feels like we have about four feet of snow here already, and while I admit to loving winters like this (mostly I love them from the couch, admiring through the window while drinking something hot), I am starting to miss greenery. No more strolling through the alleys snipping at wild things... It also means business mellows down for a couple of months, and the bulk of the work becomes consultations for weddings coming up next summer. So I decided to dig through my archives to post some refreshing pics from the past few months. As soon as I saw these, I felt reenergized and peppy. Lasted only a few seconds, but still!

From sometime in November, at Fuchsia. It's really hard for something not to look good there...

These small centerpieces were entirely made from gleaned materials, except the lemons of course. How I'd like to live in a place where I could pick my own lemons... Magnolia branches, blue juniper, tansy, marigold, and those silvery, velvety leaves who's name I can never remember... The containers are a sugar & creamer set from the 50s.