Category Archives: beauty

Feb28

hush.

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About the picture:

It’s an old barn in the field and during that time it was fogging, the sky color was light pink and below was light blue..I couldn’t really get the right color when I took that picture but it’s close to what I took.. It was so amazing feeling to see it in actual, what a great memory – Old barn on a snowy field, Janice Perkkio (somewhere in Scandinavia)

About the picture:

in January, frost -28, wonderful color brilliance, in Finnish Lapland, Sodankylä

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i came across both of these photos a year apart, taken by different people in different places

I’m so in awe of their quiet winter beauty

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‘winter knows to hush, still, listen, so the soul can speak.’

-angie weiland-crosby

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photo credits: both photos were found on view from my window

Sep22

timeless beauty.

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it was  a beautiful day for a family wedding in sedona.

 

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“the beauty in sedona is timeless.”

 

Sep18

brightest.

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“despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives – sunflowers.”

-rupi kaur

Aug2

beauty in costa rica. – part dos.

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leaves in the rain

lovely homemade breakfast

pollinator hotel in the forest

fresh-picked peppercorns

cool water swimming pool at the rainforest hotel

local cat rests with la tortuga sculpture

shadow of a rainforest fern

rainforest hotel lounge

retro lighting and paneling

playing jazz standards and christmas music

the coatis and their families

often joined us for meals

a hut deep in the rainforest

offering a place for the workers to rest

a palm tree on the pacific ocean nods to the end of a day.

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“i love to mix everything together. it’s really my way to see beauty.”

-alessandro michele

Aug1

you carry it. – part uno.

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ethereal green wall in the alley of a small town

powerful monument in the capitol city

broken pottery mosaic on the sidewalk

tree trunk art in the rainforest

luscious dessert art

bottles create stained glass in the walls of the turtle sanctuary

heart becomes part of the path

where the fairies might live in the rain forest

small storefront in the rain

night setting at one of our rain forest stays

hanging rain forest bridge to ?

fisherman’s boat waits for him on the river

flowers growing wild on the caribbean beach

near where the sea turtle laid her eggs the night before

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there was beauty of all kinds to be found in costa rica,

often in the most unlikely of places, in all its forms, as is beauty’s way.

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“when you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.”

-amanda stoddard

Dec6

beginning…

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https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=787006252392996

Aurora Borealis Observatory

 Reindeer under the aurora

 

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“i always believe that the sky is the beginning of the limit.”

-MC Hammer

Jul31

strawberry shampoo does not taste as good as it smells.

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i had asked my daughter

to pick out a nice shampoo and conditioner for me

 was excited to get these

loved reading the labels

here are just some of the words/phrases on the packaging:

Resurrection 

For weak, brittle hair that needs an intervention!

Damage Level – 3

Micro shields boost strength and stamina

Great results may cause your hair’s ego to inflate to astronomical proportions.

what?! ‘damage level -3’?!

i love the descriptors

who could resist even one of these?

and also there is so much little writing on the label

 the shampoo and conditioner bottles look exactly the same

 once i’m in the shower i have no idea which is which

and i always forget to look before i get in

and i’m not getting out to get my glasses on

so i have a 50/50 chance of getting it right, a roll of the dice

and sometimes i lose

this is what i call an ‘x-treme’ hair care experience.

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“sorry I can’t hear you over the volume of my hair.”

-author unknown

Feb20

crystals.

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crystals shine and drape

making chandeliers

out of the ordinary.

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“it is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam.

this crisp winter air is full of it.”

— John Burroughs

Nov4

welcome back, november.

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“at some point the world’s beauty becomes enough.” 

– toni morrison 

 

 

 

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 image credit: willowday flower project by gina – sweden

Oct18

deeply.

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“that we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,

that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”

-john berger

 

 

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anna scripps whitcomb conservatory, belle isle, detroit, michigan