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- “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” ― vincent van gogh
- “What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” ― Vincent van Gogh
- “The sadness will last forever.” ― Vincent van Gogh
- “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” ― Vincent van Gogh
- “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” ― Vincent van Gogh
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- “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
- “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
- “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” ― Vincent van Gogh
- “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
- “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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- “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.” ― Aristotle, Poetics
- “youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” ― Aristotle
- “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” ― Aristotle
- “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” ― Aristotle
- “A friend is a second self.” ― Aristotle
- “Through discipline comes freedom.” ― Aristotle
- “The secret to humor is surprise.” ― Aristotle
- “We make war that we may live in peace.” ― Aristotle
- “Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.” ― Aristotle
- “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” ― Aristotle
- “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.” ― Aristotle
- “Happiness is a state of activity.” ― Aristotle
- “Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.” ― Aristotle
- “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” ― Aristotle
- “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” ― Aristotle
- “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.” ― Aristotle
- “Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something” ― Aristotle
- “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” ― Aristotle
- “Nature does nothing uselessly.” ― Aristotle, Politics
- “All men by nature desire to know.” ― Aristotle, Metaphysics
- “Wit is educated insolence.” ― Aristotle
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- “Every twenty years I reinvent myself.” – Wahana Vellutini.
- “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
- “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” ― Aristotle
- “I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art – that’s wonderful.” — Jeff Koons
- “To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.” – Suzuki Roshi
- “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ― Buddha
- “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”– Eckhart Tolle
- “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.” Confucius
- “When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.” Huang Po
- “Let go, or be dragged.” Zen Proverb
- “The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.”– Koun Yamada
- “Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.”– Shunryu Suzuki
- “Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.”– Zen Proverb
- “The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
- “To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.” – Thich Nhat Hạnh
- “When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Lao Tzu
- The basic principles of Zen teachings are to relax and be at utmost peace with oneself. “Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.”
- “Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.”- Huang Po
- “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” – Jack Kornfield
- keep·ing /ˈkēpiNG/ the action of owning, maintaining, or protecting something.
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- foam /fōm/ a mass of small bubbles formed on or in liquid, typically by agitation or fermentation.
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- ob·liv·i·ous /əˈblivēəs/ not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one.
- SCHMO /SHmō/ a stupid person a hypothetical ordinary man.
- o·ver /ˈōvər/ extending directly upward from.
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- cur·va·ceous having an attractively curved shape (used especially of a woman or a woman’s figure).
- re·al /ˈrē(ə)l/ actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed.
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- “There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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- “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything
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- “Yellow is the perceived color of sunshine. It is associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.” – Marcia Moses
- “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “In the world of safe hues, like black, red and white, yellow shouts: ‘Look at me. I’m happy!’” – Joy Sewing
- “Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.” – Michael Freeman
- Flower of the Day for August 8, 2021
- moot /mo͞ot/ subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty.
- ex·pose /ikˈspōz/ make (something) visible by uncovering it.
- Purple Rain(drops)
- o·ver·due /ˌōvərˈd(y)o͞o/ not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.
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- Roses, Raindrops, and Red
- orange — a color between red and yellow
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- “The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
- “What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favourite day,” said Pooh. – A. A Milne
- “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
- “Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
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- “If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!”- Thich Nhat Hanh
- “This dew like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.” ― Dōgen Zenji
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- Late July at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- “Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.” ― Unknown
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- “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” ― Dalai Lama
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- Late July at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
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- Late July at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- “Yellow is not an in-between color, you’re either all in or you’re not.” – Mobolaji Dawodu
- “Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.” – Alexander Theroux
- Tiny Blue Flower at Russian Gulch State Park, Northern California
- “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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- “One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.” ― Diane Arbus
- “One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.” ― Diane Arbus
- “…I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold. ” ― Diane Arbus
- “The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.” ― Diane Arbus
- “I mean, it’s very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.” ― Diane Arbus
- Flower of the Day for July 4, 2021
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- July 5, 2021 Flower of the Day
- “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding” ― Diane Arbus
- “What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.” ― Diane Arbus
- Beautiful Orange Petals at Manito Park in Spokane
- “I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus
- Up Close: At the Portland International Rose Test Garden
- Flora at Headlands State Park in Mendocino, California
- Flora at Headlands State Park in Mendocino, California
- “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ― Diane Arbus
- “There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.” ― Diane Arbus
- “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus
- “The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.” ― Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Revelations
- July 9, 2021 Flower of the Day: Flora at Headlands State Park in Mendocino, California
- Flora at Headlands State Park in Mendocino, California
- July 10, 2021 Flower of the Day: Mendocino, California
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- Flora of Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Flora of Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Flora of Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- re·deem /rəˈdēm/ compensate for the faults or bad aspects of (something).
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- Flora of Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Spring Flowers in the Pacific Northwest
- The LA Flowers Market
- Friday {wild} Flowers
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- Seattle Flower Market
- Early August Wildflowers on the Noble Knob Trail in Washington State
- A Morning at the LA Flower Market is a Morning Well Spent
- ”When in doubt, add flowers.” — Unknown
- Poppy 4/5
- The LA Flower Market
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- Seattle Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- Pink Roses
- “Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.” ― Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
- “The things I carry are my thoughts. That’s it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.” ― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
- “To preserve the silence within–amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens–no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.” ― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
- “To preserve the silence within–amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens–no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.” ― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
- “Po: Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles. Oogway: Quit, don’t quit? Noodles, don’t noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the “present.” ― Kung Fu Panda
- “that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind” ― Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth
- “He knows not where he’s going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It’s the glory of the ride” ― Edward Monkton, Zen Dog
- “To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.” ― Dōgen, A Primer Of Soto Zen
- “Who we are now is all that really matters.” ― Amy Joy, The Academie
- “Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment…as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.” ― Alan W. Watts
- “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” ― Dogen
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Yellow Rose at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
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- Yellow Rose at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- “You’re looking really sharp.”
- “Say hello to my little succulent friends.”
- “My life would totally succ without you.”
- “I guess I’m a succulent mom now.”
- “‘You have too many succulents,’ said no one ever.”
- “Another day, another succulent purchase.”
- “Can’t keep my plants to myself.”
- “Cactus makes perfect.”
- “I promise I’ll never forget to water you.”
- “Sorry, I can’t. I’m hanging with my plants.”
- “I’ve never met a succulent I didn’t like.”
- “You’re pretty fly for a little cacti.”
- “I’m now taking name suggestions for my new succulent.”
- “I found my happy place. It’s filled with succulents.”
- Flower of the Day for July 28, 2021
- “I might like plants more than people.”
- International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- “Home is where the succulents are.”
- “It’s not easy being so tiny and green.”
- “Oh, the places you will grow.”
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- “TBH, I think there’s still room in here for more succulents.”
- “I like to take long walks down the succulent aisle.”
- “Go wherever the succulents are.”
- “Dessert with a side of desert-like beings.”
- “More escapes into the desert, please.”
- “Got a new plant friend today, so it’s safe to say it’s been good.”
- “Welcome to the succulent jungle.”
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Mid June: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Bunches
- Poppy 3/5
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Looks Like a Mini Tree? At the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- “The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.” ― Alan Watts
- “Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning — already gone — thus should one regard one’s self.” ― Ikkyu
- “Where there are humans, You’ll find flies, And Buddhas.” ― Kobayashi Issa
- “A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, “Why is there so much suffering?” Suzuki Roshi replied, “No reason.” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of “ZEN Mind, Beginner’s Mind”
- “When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.” ― Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
- “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
- “I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color–something which exists before all forms and colors appear… No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
- “The more you know, the less you need.” ― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
- “Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.” ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
- “Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, hold on to her, she’ll allow you into her chaos but she’ll also show you her magic.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?” ― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture
- “It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.” ― Jon J. Muth
- “Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.” ― Ryokan
- “When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
- “Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.” ― Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
- “When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” ― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold
- “For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.” ― Forrest Curran
- “As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.” ― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
- “Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing?” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
- “We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others.” ― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
- “One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.” ― Forrest Curran
- “Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as well as the moments of splendor and beauty. Tattoo in an acknowledgment and tribute to home, and tattooing your beliefs that define who you are. Whether we intended to or not, every moment of our lives are tattooed to our heart.” ― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
- “It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.” ― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
- “Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.” ― Santoka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- “The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”– Ram Dass
- Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. ― Dalai Lama
- “When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.”– Rachel Danson
- “Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.” – Maezumi Roshi
- “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” Confucius
- Smile, breathe and go slowly. ― Thích Nhất Hạnh
- “If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich.” ― Lao Tzu
- Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. ― Dalai Lama
- “All that we are, is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” ― Buddha
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- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
- In A Vase: At the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas
- “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi
- “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
- “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ― Alan Wilson Watts
- “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” ― Ray Bradbury
- “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar” ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
- “I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
- “The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
- “The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
- “The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?” ― Confucius
- “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
- “Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.” ― Meister Eckhart
- “Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?” ― Susan Gordon Lydon, The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice
- “But when you’re in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you’re guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It’s very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That’s when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.” ― George Carlin, Last Words
- “If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.” ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
- “Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.” ― Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir
- “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
- “Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.” ― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
- Mendocino, California
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Beautiful Flowers at Manito Park in Spokane, Washington
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- “My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- “When I view the world, I don’t think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- “For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- “Ive always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. Thats what Ive always done.” — Jeff Koons
- “When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- “I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It’s a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that’s taking place in the art gallery.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- “Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I’m always looking for source material.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- “Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.” ― Damien Hirst
- “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.” ― Edvard Munch
- “From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?” ― Edvard Munch
- “My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings.” ― Edvard Munch
- “We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath…a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.” ― F. T. Marinetti
- “Our poetry is courage, audacity and revolt.” ― Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Manifesti Futuristi
- “Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that’s what art is.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- “I think about my work every minute of the day.” — Jeff Koons
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- Mendocino, California
- The Tulip Fields of Skagit County, Washington
- The Los Angeles Flower Market
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- “Normality is a paved road; It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” — Vincent van Gogh
- “Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.” ― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
- Early August Wildflowers on the Noble Knob Trail in Washington State
- “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…” ― Susan Polis Schutz
- Flower of the Day At Lincoln Park Conservatory in Chicago, Illinois
- Flower of the Day: At the United States Botanic Garden
- “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
- “The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Flower of the Day Taken at Pratt Mountain in Washington State
- Stopping and Smelling the Flowers: Early August Wildflowers on the Noble Knob Trail in Washington State
- Flower of the Day: July 8, 2019–Bright and Colorful
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Black and White: Roses in Bloom at Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon
- Flower of the Day (All Caught Up)
- Orange and Pink: Orange Flower, Pink Shoes
- Colorful Roses at the Los Angeles Flower Market
- Flower of the Day: July 10, 2019-Shining Bright
- Flower Power: A Whole Lot of Beautiful Purple
- Flower of the Day in Laguna Beach, California
- Flower of the Day: Beautiful Mural in Dallas, Texas
- At the Los Angeles Flower Market
- Tender Moments: Stopping to Smell the Flowers
- Flower of the Day-All Caught Up!
- Flower of the Day in San Diego State Historic Park
- San Francisco Flower Market
- Flower of the Day in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru
- Roses: Rainbow Roses at the LA Flower Market
- Flower of the Day (Catch UP)
- Flower of the Day: August 16, 2019
- Sunflowers At the Los Angeles Flower Market
- Buttoned Up at the LA Flower Market
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- Yellow at the LA Flower Market
- Flower of the Day
- Frosty Blue Flowers
- Flower of the Day
- Flower of the Day: June 16, 2019–Purple Vein
- Flower of the Day
- Lateran Flower
- Flower of the Day
- Textures: Dried Flowers
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
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- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon
- Flower of the Day
- At the Los Angeles Flower Market
- Green: LA Flower Market
- Flower of the Day
- “A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Flowers and Architecture in Chicago II
- Flower of the Day
- Flower of the Day
- Flower of the Day: June 9, 2019–Yellow Petal Details
- Flower of the Day: Tulips
- Flower of the Day: June 9, 2019–Rainbow Roses in LA
- “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
- Flower of the Day
- Flower of the Day
- Flower of the Day: June 13, 2019–Contrasts in Beijing, China
- The LA Flower Market
- A Morning at the LA Flower Market
- 11927. The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- A Study of Yellow Flowers
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Brookings Botanical Garden in Brookings, Oregon
- Paper Flowers in Sacramento, California
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- A Study of Yellow Flowers
- The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- Stop and Smell the Flowers
- Flowers Galore at the LA Flower Market
- Spiky Flowers at the LA Flower Market
- Flower of the Day
- Flower of the Day
- The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- The LA Flower Market
- Flower of the Day: June 19, 2019–Yellow Wrinkles
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- The LA Flower Market
- The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
- “Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.” ― Diane Arbus
- “I mean, if you’ve ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don’t.” ― Diane Arbus
- “What moves me about…what’s called technique…is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.” ― Diane Arbus
- “If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.” ― Diane Arbus
- “If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.” ― Diane Arbus
- “I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.” ― Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph
- “Every Difference is a Likeness too.” ― Diane Arbus
- “My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus
- “what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.” ― Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph
- San Francisco Flower Market
- Seattle Flower Market
- Seattle Flower Market
- Seattle Flower Market
- Flowers and Architecture, Chicago
- Seattle Flower Market
- Seattle Flower Market
- Seattle Flower Market
- Seattle Flower Market
- Purple Rose at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- Purple Rose at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- Purple Rose at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
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