Where Hearts Grow

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Greed are the handcuffs

and gratitude is the key.

Sadly, sometimes we prefer

wearing the cuffs to

finding the keys. Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are more accustomed

to seeing pink ginger

from the side like this.

Everything that slows us down

and forces patience, everything

that sets us back into the

slow circles of nature, is a help.

       May Sarton

It takes real heart

to make beauty

out of the stuff that

makes us weep.

      Clive Barker

When we give cheerfully

and accept gratefully,

everyone is blessed.

   Maya Angelou

It doesn’t matter how

strong or capable you are;

if you don’t have a big heart,

you will not succeed.

    Li Ka-shing

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Love You,

     Cloudia & Pixie

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Weekend Reflections & Street Photography

Jaipur Garden Affair

Skywatch

Floral Friday

Feline Friday

Candy Humble

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Some days I feel 

like I am made of

cotton candy:

All sugar and air!

Bright Towers Rise on a Cloudy Street

You plan a tower that 

will pierce the clouds? 

Lay first the foundation 

of humility.

  Saint Augustine

Virga Beard

Giant Swims to Horizon. Flutter Kick!

Be patient. Sometimes

you have to go through

the worst to get the best.

Keep swimming!

                                                      Dance Of The Rectangles!

Photography reduces the

world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the

surfaces of reality 

in hope of unlocking the

potential for significance

that is latent within them.

     Frank Gohlke

Young Pixie 4 years of age

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees. G. K. Chesterton

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Nature Thursday

SkyWatch

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

Wrong & Write

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The best and most beautiful

things in the world cannot be

seen or even touched –

they must be felt

with the heart. Helen Keller

You have to stay fresh 

and blank in your mind

when you go out to bat.

You complicate things,

and you're gone.

Virat Kohli

I went to an antique auction

and people started

bidding on me.

Clean away the mud and straw 

and a mirror might be revealed.

                             Rumi

There was a skyness

to the sky and a

nowness to the world

that he had never seen or

felt or realized before.

        Neil Gaiman

If you cannot accept that

you are wrong

from time to time,

you will never really

be right.

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Faces as They Grow

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Predawn Honolulu Awakes

Respond to every call

that excites your spirit.

             Rumi

Fallen Three

Falling on your face,

at the very least, is

a forward movement.

      Pat Mitchell

The look on someone's face

when they're doing

what they love is

contagious and inspiring.

    Taylor Swift

It's not enough for

the torch of liberty to

be held up high only

by one woman,

every human must

hold the torch up high

in every corner of the world. Abhijit Naskar

Gort! Klatu Barada Nictu!   Link

The face is more honest

than the mouth will ever be.

   Daphne Orebaugh

Wash your face

every morning in

a bath of praise.

    Charles Spurgeon

I think people make

their own faces,

as they grow.

Enid Blyton

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

Here They Come!

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Travel Tuesday

Happy Tuesday

Pictorial Tuesday

My Corner Of The World

Wild Bird Wednesday

My Corner of the World Wednesday

Memory Reborn

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The truest test of character

is how we behave when

we don't know what to do.

        John Holt

Stop acting so small.

You are the universe

in ecstatic motion.

      Rumi

Bas-Relief Art upon an old Hawaii company in 

downtown Honolulu recalls our Agricultural History

Hibiscus waimeae, white Kauai rosemallow,
Hawaiian: kokiʻo keʻokeʻo, or kokiʻo kea

What incomes

have we not had

from a flower,

and how unfailing

are the dividends

of the seasons. Henry Ward Beecher 

I fly through memory 

to find a newborn love.

  Dejan Stojanovic

I know not all

that may be coming,

but be it what it will,

I'll go to it laughing.

   Herman Melville

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Love You,

        Cloudia & Pixie

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Monday Murals

Nature Notes

From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday

T Tuesday

Our World Tuesday

Let's Drink Tea together at this Tea House 

in Honolulu

Each Day Way

A L O H A From Honolulu!

One new feature or fresh take 

can change everything.

Neil Young

Failure to capture the

sun's morning brilliance

through trees.

Everybody deserves a 

fresh start every

once in a while.

   Bugsy Siegel

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Start a painting with

fresh ideas, and then

let the painting replace

your ideas with its ideas.

    Walter Darby Bannard

The greatest power

you possess in life is

your understanding that

life gives you a fresh start

any moment you choose.

   Guy Finley

The older you get,

the more fragile you

understand life to be.

I think that's good motivation

for getting out of bed 

joyfully each day.

        Julia Roberts

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Love You,

        Cloudia & Pixie