Small Reflections: Purple Photo Hunt and Today's Flowers

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Purple Photo Hunt and Today's Flowers

Make Time for Small Reflections

Click for a 2nd & 3rd Purple Flower Photo Hunt Posts
at Happily Retired Gal & Sacred Ruminations today too ...

This week’s theme is - PURPLE
my favorite color ;--)

Click collage to embiggen for better viewing

and for others participating in
Photo Hunt and Today's Flowers.

See also my Today's Flowers posts
at Sacred Ruminations and Happily Retired Gal
Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." Walt Whitman

32 comments:

LuLo Designs/Blue Eyed Tango said...: Beautiful collage of purple! I love pansies! Lu; April 18, 2009 at 5:59 AM
gigi said...: Oh how beautiful! Gorgeous collection of purple!; April 18, 2009 at 6:09 AM
Unknown said...: I really like all of your purples put together in a collage. Very nice.; April 18, 2009 at 6:23 AM
Amy Platon said...: Nice.; April 18, 2009 at 6:30 AM
Debbie@Like a Rose said...: Lots of pretty purple flowers! I think I Spy my personal favorite, lilacs, there at the bottom!; April 18, 2009 at 6:30 AM
Hootin Anni said...: I do love the smiley faces on pansies!!!! I have flowers for my purple this week, too, but another special purple.

Happy Saturday.; April 18, 2009 at 7:06 AM
Ladykli said...: I love your purple flower collage! They are beautiful!!!!! I did purple flowers too.

Hope you'll check out my purple.; April 18, 2009 at 7:27 AM
Tara R. said...: So pretty. Great set for this week's theme.; April 18, 2009 at 7:34 AM
Rebecca Mecomber said...: I just love purple flowers, too! Great photos.

I did purple, too. I hope you have time to see! http://newyorktraveler.net/photo-hunters-purple/; April 18, 2009 at 7:46 AM
The Queen Bee said...: Great shots. My purple is up too.; April 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Brita said...: Wow! Great collection of shots for the theme. Lovely.; April 18, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Brita said...: Wow! Great collection of shots for the theme. Lovely.; April 18, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Sylvia K said...: Beautiful collage! Such rich and beautiful colors! Love it!; April 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Mom Knows Everything said...: Those are so pretty! I recongize the pansies, but what are the other ones?; April 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Kay said...: I really do love purple. Thanks for the smile.; April 18, 2009 at 10:18 AM
CrAzY Working Mom said...: Your collages are always beautiful. I love the collection of purple flowers you've displayed.

My Photo Hunt ~ Stitched with Love; April 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Anonymous said...: You make the most beautiful collages...; April 18, 2009 at 11:37 AM
kitten said...: You sure have a lot of pretty pictures of flowers this year! Sorry I have not been by this week, have had you on my mind. I hope all is well!
Hugs!; April 18, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Anonymous said...: Very pretty & very purple too! hehehe; April 18, 2009 at 3:33 PM
SandyCarlson said...: These are gorgeous!; April 18, 2009 at 8:07 PM
lv2scpbk said...: Beautiful flowers and I love the duck photo with the babies on the back.; April 19, 2009 at 6:04 AM
pelfy said...: You do have a lot of purple flowers. Nice!; April 19, 2009 at 7:49 AM
Kahshe Cottager said...: Purple is my favourite colour for Pansies. Soon I will be able to plant some in my garden!; April 19, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Travis Cody said...: I saw purple flowers somewhere else today too. I love the richness of purple spring flowers.; April 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Laerte Pupo said...: Thanks for sharing.
I love the photos.; April 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Arija said...: A lovely potpourie of purples!; April 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Naturegirl said...: Simply stunning..purple always wins my heart! Great collage!; April 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Tulip said...: wow gorgeous purple flowers.; April 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM
EG CameraGirl said...: Beautiful pansies. I think pansies will hit the stores in my area this week. I'm sooo excited!; April 20, 2009 at 8:31 AM
DeniseinVA said...: Your collage is such a lovely presentation, and I would like to thank you for sharing these beautiful flowers with Today's Flowers.; April 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Ivanhoe said...: I just planted pansies this weekend. Purple, yellow & white ones. I hope they will make it as it supposed to go down to just 35 tonight...; April 21, 2009 at 7:36 AM
Pamela said...: purple pansies. If i was a flower... that is what I would be.; April 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM

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... I'm thankful to have encountered the 'Food Court Flash Mob Hallelujah Chorus to share here at Small Reflections. I've also shared a Beautiful Meditative Video and a delightful Random Act of Culture (that happened at Macy's) at Sacred Ruminations ... just because.

I'm also grateful that I've created a personalized 1st edition 'Labyrinth Journal' for my friend Susan. I've written a second version that I plan to publish & share with others very soon.

My sister & her husband arrived in town on Wednesday, November 17th and will be around for a few months ... so that's pretty 'kewl' too!

Remember ... you can find me sharing at Giraffe Journal and Labyrinth Journal when you don't see anything from me posted here.

Hope all's well with you and yours!
Hugs and blessings,
Virginia

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Evolution of my blogs
Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at SacredRuminations ... the site where I joined Carla's Sacred Life Project. I published daily on both sites initially, but in mid-January of 2008 I gave myself permission to cut myself some slack & rethink things. Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily here, but I'm thinking about alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

In October of 2008, I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary here at Small Reflections on the 22nd & at Sacred Ruminations on the 23rd.

I completed Blog 365 in 2008 with a total of 378 posts here at Sacred Ruminations, 234 at Sacred Ruminations, 20 at BlogRolls, Bling & Blurbs, and 30 at Happily Retired Gal for a grand total of 662 ... all in 366 days!

In 2009, my sister & her husband returned to So Cal for 4 months and I had less time to blog. Even though they're on the road again, I'm finding it challenging to recapture a daily blogging habit. Click for more specifics about this.

In October of 2009 I celebrated my 2nd Blogoversary here at Small Reflections & at Sacred Ruminations and in November of 2009 I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary at Happily Retired Gal. Little did I know what would follow when I entered this 'virtual' world.

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My Blog Blasts for Peace:
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and last June:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

My Peace Globes are below
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"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear .... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"How you handle the situation IS the situation." Stephen Covey

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." Lao-Tzu

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"At mid-life more than any other time, we have renewed opportunity to create health by expressing our creativity fully." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot

"Things are only impossible until they're not." Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows." Ralph Waldo Emerson

More thoughts

"We have been so eager to give our children what we didn't have in life, we have neglected to give them what we did." Anyonmous

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are events in life that cannot be explained or changed. I acknowledge them, feel them, and I release the rage, guilt, loss, anger, and grief." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." Bernadette Devlin

"The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity." Edmund Burke

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." Virginia Woolf

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and their unlimited imagination." James Michener

"If you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." Henry Ford

More Thoughts ...

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do." Georgia O'Keefe

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." Richard Bach

"Telling stories causes others to remember what they have always known." Anonymous

"Character is the bridge between our beliefs and our behavior. Character is the glue of personality, the connective tissue that makes a person whole, integrated, a person of integrity." Joan Konner, journalist

"What you choose not to look at in life, rules your life." Lynn Andrews

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When a woman changes her life for the better, her entire family (whether or not she has children) generally benefits. She sets the tone. The well-being of the family and of society itself depends upon women becoming and remaining healthy. So we owe it to ourselves to put ourselves first and take the time we need to heal." Dr. Christiane Northrup

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Purple Photo Hunt and Today's Flowers

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