A Garden Is A Private World

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The secret of the mountain is that

the mountains simply exist,

as I do myself: the mountains

exist simply, which I do not.

The mountains have no "meaning,"

they are meaning;

the mountains are. Peter Matthiessen

A garden is a private world

or it is nothing.

Eleanor Perenyi

Smokey Lunar New Year Dancing Lions in Town!

前兔无量 / 前兔似锦

Qián tù wúliàng / Qián tù sì jǐn

A promising/bright rabbit ahead!

It's Year Of The CAT, You Know! *

Tiền vào nhu nước sông Đà,
tiền ra nhỏ giọt như cà phê phin:

Money influx is as strong as Da's river; expenditure is as little as dripping coffee.

Our Vietnamese New Year Wish

To YOU!

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

* Lunar Year of the Rabbit,

is considered Year of the Cat in Vietnam!

Antidote For Cruelty

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The world is so full

of a number of things,

I'm sure we should all

be as happy as kings.

     Robert Louis Stevenson

Mountaintops inspire leaders

but valleys mature them.

    Winston Churchill

Mountaintops are for views

and inspiration, but fruit

is grown in the valleys.

 Billy Graham

Both light and shadow

are the dance of love.

   Rumi 

To know how to grow old
is the master work of
wisdom, and one of the
most difficult chapters
in the great art
of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel

 Gentleness

 is the antidote

 for cruelty. 

              Phaedrus 

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Love You,

    Cloudia & Pixie

Links

Nature Notes

From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday

T Tuesday

Class In The Grass

Joy Factor

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Full Moon by Cynthia Tucker Naihe

Who has seen the rising

moon break out of

the clouds at midnight

has been present

like an archangel at

the creation of light

and of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803–1882)

If, instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give George MacDonald 

All the windows of my heart

I open to the day.     

 John Greenleaf Whittier

Joy is one of the seven

factors of enlightenment.

Buddhist teachings

Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour. Walt Whitman

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

To See It All

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Frank C. Judd Mini Park Link

The rule is you have to dance

a little bit in the morning

before you leave the house

because it changes the way

you walk out in the world.

    Sandra Bullock

Yes, I'm in a hurry, I'm rushing to live with the intensity that only maturity can give. I don't mean to waste any of the leftover sweets. I'm sure these will be delicious, a lot more than the ones I've eaten so far...

...My goal is to reach a satisfied

and peaceful end with my

loved ones and my conscience.

We have two lives and the

second one starts when you

realize you only have one.

    Mario of Andrade

 

Lantana camara 

is a species of flowering plant

within the verbena family,

native to the American tropics. 

Wikipedia

The key to happiness

is...

...under the doorstep rug.

Ljupka Cvetanova

I see at least 3 Teddy Bears admiring

the Red Cloud Parade.

You don't need to understand

the people you love.

To be near them

and love them

is enough.

     Marty Rubin

Today's photos were shot with my new camera: Google's Pixel 6 Pro Phone.

"The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro have the same main wide-angle cameras and ultrawide cameras. The Pro adds a 4x telephoto lens. In traditional camera lens terms, they have focal length equivalents of 16mm, 25mm and 104mm, said Alex Schiffhauer, the Pixel product manager who oversees hardware. That's 0.7x, 1x and 4x in the camera interface." cnet Link

Proximity and closeness

are not the same.

Thi Bui

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Love You,

Pixie, Pixel &

Cloudia

Linking To

Eileen's Saturday Critters

Young & Old - Near & Far

A   L   O   H   A  !

Most of the shadows 

of this life are caused

by our standing in 

one's own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bon Dancing Last Summer. Link

Sunshine is delicious, 

rain is refreshing, 

wind braces us up, 

snow is exhilarating; 

there is really no such 

thing as bad weather, 

only different kinds 

of good weather.     

John Ruskin

If you spend 

your whole life waiting 

for the storm, you'll 

never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

There is no investment 

you can make which will 

pay you so well as 

the effort to scatter 

sunshine and good cheer 

through your establishment.

      Orison Swett Marden

 The smaller the creature,

the bolder its spirit.

Suzy Kassem

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We Love You!

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Linking To

Saturday Critters

Just The Way You Are

A   L   O   H   A  !

Come walk with me around Honolulu's

 McCully/Waikiki Neighborhood- link

You've made this day a special day, 

by just your being you. There's 

no person in the whole world like you, 

and I like you just the way you are.

              Fred Rogers

Be grateful for luck. 

Pay the thunder no mind - 

listen to the birds. 

And don't hate nobody.

       Eubie Blake

I never approve, or disapprove, 

of anything now. 

It is an absurd attitude 

to take towards life. 

We are not sent into the world to 

air our moral prejudices.  

            Oscar Wilde

If you can spend a perfectly 

useless afternoon, in a 

perfectly useless manner, 

you have learned how to live.

         Lin Yutang

Linking To
Thankful Thursday

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Love You,

                                cloudia

Magical Invitaion

A  L  O  H  A !

View From A Parking Structure

If you are a dreamer, come in,

If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,

A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...

If you're a pretender come sit by my fire

For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.

Come in!

Come in!

    Shel Silverstein

I like seeing the clouds behind the mountains through the trees at the summit.

An invitation of a beautiful street is 

an invitation to walk within a dream!

 Mehmet Murat ildan

Guides come when you're ready to listen; 

no eBay or Amazon link will fetch them. 

You need to invite, not pursue.

       Helen S. Rosenau

Links:

SkyWatch

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

Good Fences   

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Love You,

                                    cloudia

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