Skywatch Friday - Season 6, Episode 37

If you would like to view skies from all over the world click here:  http://skyley.blogspot.com/.
Skywatch Friday hosts are:  Yogi, Sandy, and Sylvia.   Thank you!

Infinity

Quote 588 Osip Mandelshtam

"Could it be that my whisper was already born, before my lips?"
...Osip Mandelshtam (1891-1938)

Quote 587 Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
...Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

3/20 Outdoor Wednesday #219

Susan, thank you for hosting Outdoor Wednesday again.   If you are interested in participating or viewing other blogs who have posted an outdoor theme click here:  http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/.

When my husband, John, and I visited Curacao, we stayed here at the Moran House.  It was simply like being in paradise.

The infinity pool was amazing!

Picturesque gate into side garden.

Birds were on cacti.    80s everyday.   What's not to like?

Quote 586 Jason Bussell

"The three greatest factors that get us out of balance are our:  Diet, Lifestyle, and Attitudes."
...Jason Bussell, MSOM, Licensed Acupuncturist
THE ASIAN DIET

Thinking Outside the Box Cardboard Box

Found this interesting cardboard box.

It was just a plain simple image.   One that needed to be deleted.
Somehow, I saw potential.
I kept it in photo files.



I edited it in Picasa Photo Program .
Now it looks like Yin and Yang symbol to me. 
I decided to post this image for Creative Every Day 2013
as a black and white format goal.
Yahoo....it is finished.



Quote 585 Jim Ryun

"Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going."
...Jim Ryun

Quote 584 Sri Chinmoy

"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier.  Love everything, you will be happiest."

...Sri Chinmoy

Quote 583 Marianne Williamson

“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.”
...Marianne Williamson

Pink Saturday - March 16, 2013

Linking with:  http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/.  
Thank you Beverly for being the hostess.

Pink roses on a cross in a cemetary in Soto, Curacao-Feb. 2013.   I took a double take after posting this image.  It looks like a triangle behind the bottom of the cross and I see a face with long hair holding the cross up toward the sky.  I also see two rectangles one is straight on and the other rectangle is a wee bit crooked.  

The weather in Curacao is in the 80s everyday.   That isn't hard to take when back home in Chicagoland area it is in the 20s either snowing, raining or grey but someone has to do it so it might as well be me.

Here is more information of the cemetary in Soto, Curacao:  http://curacaocemeteries.com/Soto.html.

I just had to share this fun blog:  http://harleygirl-countrygirl.blogspot.com/2013/03/pink-st-patricks-day.html?showComment=1363403978189#c1693578940645287386.   Isn't that St. Patrick's Day duck a "cute" post?

From our house to your house we wish you a HAPPY ST. PATRICK's DAY.

Creative Every Day 2013 - Black and White Format Photograph



March Challenge is black and white.   I found your page just about an hour ago.   This image before was flat and uninteresting to me.   Played around in Picasa Photo Program.  
Now it looks like an archaeology dig find: insect on rock.
What fun!



Skywatch Friday - Season 6, Episode 36

If you would like to see skies from around the world click here:  http://skyley.blogspot.com/.

            Your Skywatch hosts are Yogi, Sandy, and Sylvia.

Curacao
View near Soto

Quote 582 Basho

“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.”
...Basho

Quote 581 Herophilus

"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless."
... Herophilus, Ancient Greek Physician

Quote 580 Voltaire

"No snow flake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
...Voltaire

3/13/2013 Outdoor Wednesday #218

If you would like to participate or view blogs who have posted an outdoor theme click here:   http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/.   Thank you Susan for being our hostess.

Sunday in the afternoon, the forest perserve in Glenview, IL was enveloped with fog.  A person was enjoying a picnic and reading.

Found two people exploring the woods.

This path was closed.   Notice the heavy fog at the other end.

Can barely see the woods.

Later, it rained, then rained and then rained some more.   Chicagoland area was lucky the rain wasn't snow.   I went down to Lake Michigan but there wasn't any fog.   How odd?    Afternoon fog is strange too.   It usually disappates.  

Quote 579 Peter Levitt

"Continue to know nothing.  Keep the edge.  Don't lose this beginner's mind."
...Peter Levitt

Thinking Outside the Box - Window Frames

Photos taken Soto, Curacao - Window Frames

copyright:  JM 2013

Quote 578 Albert Schweitzer

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being.  Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light."
...Albert Schweitzer

Quote 577 Georgia O'Keeffe

"Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystallizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp..."
...Georgia O'Keeffe

"The March wind roars

Like a lion in the sky,

And makes us shiver

As he passes by.

When winds are soft,

And the days are warm and clear,

Just like a gentle lamb,

Then spring is here."

- Author Unknown

Skywatch Friday - Season 6, Episode 35

If you would like to view skies from all over the world click here:  http://skyley.blogspot.com/.   Thanks to the Skywatch Friday team:   Yogi, Sylvia and Sandy.

Willemsted, Curacao
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemstad,_Netherlands_Antilles

Quote 576 Unknown

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."
...Unknown

3/6/2013 Outdoor Wednesday #217

If you would like to participate or view blogs who have posted an outdoor theme click here: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/. Thank you Susan for being the hostess.

EEEEK!   Ladies and Gentlemen!   Don't be afraid.   This is not a real iguana.    This fence has only a decorative iguana extending from face to tail along the long, long, long fence.    Isn't this something?   Iguana fence is located at the Landhuis Jan Kok Willibrordus Gallery of Nena Sanchez.

©Nena Sanchez Gallery
Landhuis Jan Kok Willibrordus
(road to west punt )
telephone 8640965
open 10 AM TO 6 PM

©Nena Sanchez Gallery
Landhuis Jan Kok Willibrordus
(road to west punt )
telephone 8640965
open 10 AM TO 6PM



©Nena Sanchez Gallery
Landhuis Jan Kok Willibrordus
(road to west punt )
telephone 8640965
open 10 AM TO 6 PM

Find out more about Nena Sanchez, Artist here:  http://www.nenasanchez.com/nenasanchez.html.

Thinking Outside the Box - Iquana

Iquana
©Nena Sanchez Curacao

This photograph was taken on Nena Sanchez' property.   Another day I will post the wall that the iquana is climbing on. 
Today, I am showing only the eyeball.
Do you think the iquana is real or fake?

Quote 575 Walt Whitman

"I think I could turn and live with animals.   They do not sweat and whine about their condition.   Not one is dissatisfied."
...Walt Whitman

Quote 574 Mark Nepo

"This is the work of compassion:   to embrace everything clearly without imposing who we are and without losing who we are."
...Mark Nepo, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING, pg. 246

Pink Saturday - March 1, 2013

If you would like to participate or view blogs who have posted PINK things click here:  http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/.  Bevery thank you for being the hostess for Pink Saturday.  

I visited this gallery and purchased a colorful print http://www.nenasanchez.com/bluegodess.html.  

Quote 573 Dean Koontz

"We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are."

...Dean Koontz

Skywatch Friday - Season 6, Episode 34

If you would like to view skies from all over the world click here:  http://skyley.blogspot.com/.
Hosted by Yogi, Sandy, and Sylvia.

Wireless Phone
Willmstead, Curacao

Quote 572 Dr. Lee Jampolsky

"When you are upset remind yourself
the cause of your discomfort
is your own attitude.
This is freedom."
...Dr. Lee Jampolsky