Sunday, May 13, 2012

Plumbago for Mother's Day 2012

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love.  It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.  
~Edwin Hubbell Chapin ~
Happy Mommy's Day to all beautiful and awesome mothers of the world! 
Reliable...
Resilient...
Facing life's difficulties with patience and courage...
Refusing to give up...
Rebound from hardships, traumas, misfortunes...
Determination to embrace all that makes life worth living...
The Plumbago flower...has all the qualities that a mother has within her...a small flower but such a big heart. A very loving flower as it's very well known for treating wounds, headaches and dispels bad dreams. 
 Pale sky blue in color...so like moms who work tirelessly and yet so beautiful.
A sun-loving flower...moms are fun people too, if you give them your time, attention and love!
Because I feel that in the heavens above, the Angels, whispering one to another, can find among their burning tears of love, none so devotional as that of "Mother", 
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you, You who are more than mother unto me.
(Edgar Allan Poe)
(My daughter Nicole and my mom Dorothy)
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.  And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.  ~Victoria Secunda ~


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Shy May

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within (Horace Friess) 
Life is what we make it. Happiness is a choice as they say...and I truly believe that!

The month of May has arrived! It is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere....two of my favourite seasons of the year. Spring where flowers start to bloom and life starts to be colourful; and Autumn for me is snow, presents, love, and romance!
I am featuring the shy, bashful, fun Mimosa Pudica this month; otherwise known as the Shy or Tickle Me Plant. In my country, this fun and sensitive plant is a wild one...very often ignored...but never by me!
I still remember the first time my friends showed me this plant; when I was about 10 yrs old. I watched to my amazement as the leaves shut themselves the second I touched them...and it still amazes me til this day. God has really creative ideas!!
Flowers are Heaven's masterpiece (Dorothy Parker)

Flower for thought...Did you know that in some countries, this plant is regarded as an aphrodisiac for frigid women? Hehe...that's where "fun" comes in *grinnnnnnnnn*
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents (Robert Browning)
Each moment of the year has its own beauty (Ralph Waldo Emerson)