Category Archives: Lessons From Flowers
FLOWER QUOTE: WITHOUT HARD WORK
August 07, 2017
MY TWO CENTS Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds… Hard work is needed in a garden, otherwise there is no doubt that all you will end up with are weeds. Hard work is about putting effort into planting a beautiful garden and life. Not only do you need to spend time planning and planting to have a beautiful garden and a well lived life, it’s just as important to spend time nurturing and s...
Read MoreFLOWER QUOTE: JUST WHEN THE CATERPILLAR THOUGHT
July 17, 2017
MY TWO CENTS Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly… I have this quote on a pillow in my office, and it puts a smile on my face every time I read it. It gives me hope that in any phase of my life, I can still turn into a butterfly and maybe someday be able to fly and pollinate flowers. Wouldn’t that be amazing! Yes, those are my child-like thoughts coming ...
Read MoreNEMESIS OR MENTOR?
July 16, 2017
Photographing flowers in my studio has its own challenges, but shooting outside has challenges I have no control over: the sun, the clouds, the rain, and especially the wind, tests my patience. I can make adjustments to my camera to help compensate for each of the elements, but that can affect the quality of my image. To try to get the image I really want, I have learned from the wind that I must ...
Read MoreFLOWER QUOTE: IT IS NOT JOY THAT MAKES US GRATEFUL
June 19, 2017
MY TWO CENTS It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful… Happiness should not depend on what has happened but on taking in every moment and being grateful. I rephrased that last sentence from Brother David Steindl-Rast words. Recently, I have been writing down everyday to remind myself to find joyful moments, but after reading his quote and hearing his TED talk, ...
Read MoreWOMEN ON THE GO! GO! GO!
June 18, 2017
I have often thought of the woman who works in the offices I described in my last blog post, and the woman whose office is her car, as she runs every which way to take care of all of the people in her world. For me, these women represent women on the Go! Go! Go!; caring for kids, a parent, friend, lover, someone in need, or log-jammed in a demanding job. But she is also that searcher, that seeker ...
Read MoreFLOWER QUOTE: THE HAPPINESS OF THE BEE
February 20, 2017
MY TWO CENTS The happiness of the bee ... should we not also be happy to exist? I think we should be more than happy to exist as we have so many opportunities to have such joy, wonder, laughter and love in out lives, if we only search it out. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jacques Yves Cousteau was a French Naval Officer. His career in office was cut short due to an automobile accident that he was very for...
Read MoreFloral Blog: After A While
December 04, 2016
After a While You Learn This post was created after coming across Veronica's quote and learning that it was a poem, 'After a While You Learn'. I wasn't able to learn much about Veronica, but here we can at least learn about her through her writing. by Veronica A. Shoffstall (1971) After some time you learn the difference, The subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. ...
Read MoreLETTING IT HAPPEN
September 15, 2015
It really wasn’t the summer I expected it to be, though that doesn’t mean it was a bad summer, just a different summer. I guess it started with the wonderful intentions of planting my cutting garden early, though it didn’t quite happen that way, and as I write this I feel sad that I didn’t get it all done as I had hoped. But then I remind myself that there is always next year, and any sadn...
Read MoreAs I Am
August 25, 2015
We were recently in Maine on a few days vacation to celebrate my birthday. It was as a hostess was seating us at our table one morning that I noticed the tattoo on her foot: ‘As I am’. I thought it was a powerful statement. A statement not of complacency, but of a strong belief in one’s self and a reminder to myself to have acceptance of where I’m at this moment. Maybe it’s a strong, bra...
Read MoreCHANGE YOUR WORLD FOR A MOMENT
April 14, 2015
I had anticipated sharing the story of where the name ‘Floating Petals’ came from today, but instead I came across a quote by Georgia O’Keeffe that I shared yesterday, and it encompasses all that my website is about, which is how flowers can become your world, your view and change a moment in an instant. Life is active and always changing. We have to seek out those things that make us mos...
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