Category: Flowers

  •   Humans are hardwired for kindness and cooperation. That's how we've gotten this far. That's how we will go even farther. As far as we can imagine! Kindness. Compassion. Empathy. Generosity.     We take good care of each other. Let's be patient and trusting – Like the good earth that we share.    …

  •     My, oh my! What more Can I say; seeing lilies On the peaceful walk?       Surprise lilies in the neighborhood! ©2020Laine Quinn            

  •       SPRING! Ignoring world events – has sprung!         Red Hibiscus, coming through the slats. ©2020 Laine Quinn  

  •     …It''s about my journey going from a liberal civil  rights lawyer who was tinkering with the machine, and believed that we could somehow get the to the Promised Land if we just filed the next best lawsuit, or met the the governor, or organize the right number of people for the next protest,…

  •     While burning a few things on the deck in the chiminnea, I noticed these caterpillars munching away on the Butterfly Weed. It was over a month ago. There were about 10 or 12 of them, and they decimated that plant.     Then yesterday, while leaning over the rail to reach a hanging…

  •     "…a soulful ecology is rooted in the feeling that this world is our home and that our responsibility to it comes not from obligation or logic, but from true affection.   …As long as the heart is involved, care of the place will follow."                                                               Thomas Moore, Care of The Soul    …

  •     Whenever I see a line of pelicans coming along the beach, over the waves, their wingtips just grazing the water, I get a little bit jealous of how simple their life appears to be.   It seems that the creatures of this world are better at meeting their daily needs than the oh…

  •     Good morning, Glory!     From the Archives, May, 2012.  

  •     I'd almost forgotten that daffodils were my Mom's favorite flower. She'd be 100 this year, if she had survived her difficult challenges – impending divorce, depression, alcoholism. Back in the 70's it was all behind closed doors.   I'll never know her as a wise old woman, but as a woman, who loved…

  •     Lucky shot! or The Visitor.