The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Simple Beauty

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Simple Beauty

~Photo by Audrey

There is such beauty in the simple things if only we take a moment to look. This lone cockscomb is in a pot in front of a restaurant. I nearly missed it, but took another glance back before getting in my car. One simple flower.... so much texture and so much beauty.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Pretty amazing bloom. A sparkler. xox Corrine; November 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM
Marion said...: I love those strange flowers. Mama gave me one last year and it's still blooming. Great photo!!! xo; November 8, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Deborah said...: Love the color. I have been trying to find the "almost missed" joys in life too, all the little things that are really miracles in themselves. God is good. **blows kisses** Deb; November 8, 2011 at 5:46 PM
pinkglitterfae said...: you are a smart lady for having a camera handy for whenever you come across such beauty! I never remember, lol!
thanks for stopping by my blog, beeswax is very easy to use. Just a matter of melting it, and smoothing it :-)
You are right about the darkness coming earlier, not much we can do but get used to it. I happen to love this time of year. Makes me stay in more :-D
xoxo
betty; November 8, 2011 at 7:17 PM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.