...the audience still sleeps

Sunrise on the beach, Rhodes, Greece | 2008

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

~ John Lennon

In picture - Ice Cream Love

Ice cream ♥ by Nouf Ahmed ✿

Be the change

Gandhi street art via Street Art Urban

"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world."

~Mahatma Gandhi

In picture - Curious Cat

Curious Cat by Joe Aminoff

In picture - Looking at you

And June is here! I don't want to shout too loud just in case, but it's sunny, at last =D

This month's photo theme is going to be curiosity.

Zhen Zhen & Bai Yun 1.12.2008 by Rita Petita

Courage

John Wayne by Phil Stern via Chasing Light

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."

~John Wayne

In picture - You can do it!

The first hurdle by Mirror_Lake, on Flickr

In picture - so small a beautiful thing

'In picture' is back (yay). This month's theme is going to be ~small but fierce.

F1160008 by kori song on Flickr

Only when it is dark enough...

Perseids Meteor Over the North Cascades by Michael Menefee

"...only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."


~Martin Luther King Jr, I've been to the mountain top speech, 1968

If you have good thoughts...

The sunflowers by C-Smooth

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

~ Roald Dahl

....the shots you never take

Goal by Hermes M Singson on deviantART

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

~Wayne Gretzy

Little Lottie

Last year I bought a plug plant of lavender, a pink variety called 'Little Lottie', to try growing some on my balcony. It started off quite well; I potted it as soon as it arrived and it seemed to establish really well, with new growth sprouting not long after. Unfortunately over a few weeks I managed to over-water it and, as lavender hates soggy roots, it started to die. When I pulled it out of its pot the roots had begun to rot.

As luck would have it though, one of the branches had dropped off the main stem and buried itself in the soil, so I left it in there, hoping that perhaps it would take root.

Well, by this spring it had redoubled in size and I was so happy when little flower buds started appearing.

This is a few of the cuttings from that little plant which I almost killed. How resilient must it be?

In picture - jam and toast

Untitled by thom♥, on Flickr

In picture - fresh pancakes

Yum! by yoshiko314, on Flickr

In picture - le petit dejeuner

May's picture theme is going to be breakfast

Le petit dejeuner pour monsieur et mademoiselle by cocon work

She stood in the storm

I can't change the direction of the wind... by Carmi Garcia

"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not go her way...she adjusted her sails."

~Elizabeth Edwards

In picture - out on a walk with mum

Baby's Day Out by Michael Greening

And above all watch with glittering eyes

bokeh+butterfly+grass {SOOC barring butterfly) by E v i e J a y e

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

~Raold Dahl

In picture - safe with mum

April's theme is going to be mum and baby

Bai Yun: Come back later I am having dinner by Rita Petita

In picture - far from the hustle and bustle

sanga choling gompa, pelling by Marina Shakleina