Today's Picture to Ponder Photo
a Red-Orange Hibsicus against the back of our home.
For those who are curious, the faint horizontal lines on the right are tendrils from the passion flower vine reaching out to the wall.
Today, I was working on, or shall I say "laboring" on, an entirely different set of photos to highlight when this hibiscus jumped out at me during yet another search. The flower is so bright and cheerful, as well as graceful and alive, that I stopped what I was working on, shifted gears and resized the photograph to place here for you to enjoy also.
(You can see what I was working on, if you wish, by clicking on the ONION page.)
Self-Reflecting Queries
As I indicated above I spent a lot of time this morning working on selecting, searching and resizing photos to feature in this issue. The thoughts running around in my mind had to do with showing a cut onion which had caught my eye a couple of weeks ago.
I had placed it in a black pan to set it off and photograph it. What I discovered was that putting the stove light on created a whole different visual in the photograph, as well as a different mood. In addition the lighting change gave the illusion that a concave pan was convex.
During the time I was burdening myself with selecting the "right" pictures to get my points across, whatever they were, I was feeling very tired. Everything, but the writing, had been about finalized when I discovered the hibiscus.
The flower's whole lightness of being, and sense of assuredness, totally shifted my mood and gave me a sense of freedom, as well as the shift in my plans. "Did you really need a 'lesson' today?" I don't think so.
On the other hand, for those of you who are curious, as I would be, I did, as indicated above, create a page on my site with some of the photos. I may, or may not, make the "lesson points" on that page. See ONION.
Now to you. Are there places in your life right now where you are hammering away at a project, where you're bombarded with the thoughts and ideas that you think you want to express? If so, I invite you to step back and bring in something entirely different; then see what becomes available for you.
In my case I wound up being able to do both with a lot more ease than I was experiencing up until the point in time when I chose anew.
Happy explorations and discoveries.
STAMP OUT PARKINSON'S DISEASE
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We deeply appreciate all those of you who have and will be responding to this year's request for contributions, as well as those who donated last year.
Support the April 14th Walk-A-Thon in South Florida - 100% of your money with go to National APDA for Research.
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Or simply visit the beautiful TULIPS page and enjoy. (back to top)
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The GIFT SHOP now has one section featuring this bud on a variety of products and another section with a variety of other tulips.
I will donate $2.00 from every tulip product purchased in the Nature Art Gift shop through April 30th to the Walk-A-Thon. ($1.00 on single magnets.) |
BACKGROUND explaining our interest in the APDA national Walk-A-Thons, the one fund-raiser where ALL of the money raised goes to research.
As most of you undoubtedly know by now, Sam has Parkinson's Disease. He was diagnosed with it 10 years ago, on the weekend set for a surprise celebration of his 65th birthday. Yes, we both had surprises that weekend.
Fortunately Sam's balance is great and he and I will be walking with the members of the Southeast Florida chapter
and I've set up a page through a secure service provided by Amazon.com, where anyone interested may make a donation to Parkinson's research, either anonymously or by giving your name and thus getting a receipt.
Should you be interested in supporting this, you may simply use the Picture
to Ponder - Tulips link or, if you wish to send
a check, go to APDA's Annual
Walk-A-Thon page and scroll down the page for our chapter's address or
for one closer to you, if you prefer that.
The latter page, with contact names and phone numbers, is also wonderful resource for any of you who might know someone with Parkinson's Disease, or a family member, who is looking for information and support. We belonged to the chapter in NJ before moving and joining the one here in South Florida.
PD is the second most
common neurodegenerative disease experienced by man,
Alzheimer's disease being the most common. See Overview in the Pharmaceutical Journal for some detailed information.
I've also included a few more facts on the Tulips
donation page.
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