Reds and Yellow

Autumn is coming and as a goodbye to summer the yellow and deep red flowers appear.  Do they show up at this time so that we will have their vivid colors to remember as we go into Autumn and Winter?

They don't last long at this time -- but they do attract the birds as well as the eye.

Soon I will be longing for these beauties as well as all the other blooming plants and flowers that I have gotten used to over the spring and summer.  Perhaps the fact that they aren't there for me all year long makes them even more precious.

"We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course its our garden that is really nurturing us." - Jennie Uglow

Teatime Mouse

My tea time is very precious to me.  It is my reading time, my thinking time, my just plain being calm time.  So you can imagine my horror when I found this little lady trying to get into my precious stash of tea.

Before I had a chance to chastise her, she was complaining to me about how difficult it is to get the lids off these tins.  "Yes, and that is for a reason, so mice won't sneak into my tea supply".

You certainly know, I can never deny a person a cup of tea -- so I gave her a little assistance.  She repaid my help by sharing her morning cup with me and we had a very nice visit.  

"A cup of tea makes everything better." - anonymous

"Navajo Way" Blessing

                                                                                Art by Tony Abeyta

"Walking in Beauty" (Blessing)

Today I will walk out, today everything unnecessary will leave me.
I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
I will have a light body, I will be happy forever.
Nothing will hinder me.
I walk with beauty before me.  I walk with beauty behind me.
I walk with beauty below me.  I walk with beauty above me.
I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful

In beauty all day long may I walk
Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With dew about my feet, may I walk

With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk.
With beauty below me may I walk.
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
My words will be beautiful.

                                   Navajo deity called "Monster Slayer at Crow Canyon

Accidental Mouse

Its not always a good thing to walk into your kitchen and find not only a mouse in the corner of the counter top -- but one who has obviously felt the cruel strokes of a mixer blade.

He was quite the grouch about it, mostly complaining about the damage to his tail, which he had previously been quite proud of.

I felt so sorry for him that I just couldn't get angry, as well I should have.  Perhaps he's learned his lesson and will pass it along to the others.  Only time, and healing will tell.

"When you're in a slump

you're not in for much fun

Unslumping yourself

is not easily do"

Dr. Seuss - "Oh the places you'll go"

Hopi Prayer

 Hold on to what is good
even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold onto what you believe
even if its a tree that stands by itself.
Hold onto what you must do
even if its a long way from here.
Hold onto your life
even if its easier to let go.
Hold onto my hand
even when I've gone away from you.