All About Flowers and Beauty ... ♥

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it."

~ Ivan Panin~

 

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”

~ Confucius ~

Aftter the Rain ...

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?
~Oscar Hammerstein II~













I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

~William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," 1804

Bukidnon My Home

 Bukidnon My Home

Where ever I may roam,

The distant land to see;

I long to go back soon,

To sweet Bu-kid-non home.

Her lovely mountain’s high,

With forest old and grand;

Bring memories to me,

The home I long to see.

Chorus:

There my heart yearns to be,

In far away Bukidnon land,

Under its blue starry sky,

Where love and joy never die.

(Optional 2nd &3rd stanzas)

II-

The broad and green plateaus,

The rivers winding through;

My heart doth long no more of,

Wonders of the world;

The balmy gentle wind,

That kiss the travelers brow;

Will blow and ever blow,

Wherever I may go.

(Repeat chorus)

III-

The silver water falls,

In distance one can see;

In beauty they express,

The strangers sincere praise.

The long and zigzag roads,

The canyons deep and wide;

Will ever be enshrined,

In all Bukidnon mind.

(Repeat chorus)

There my heart yearns to be,

In far away Bukidnon land,

Under its blue starry sky

Where love and joy never die.

Never die.

My grandmother loved this song … She used to sing it to us as a lullaby …

We used to sing it together.

When she died, I sang it to her. I still do, even now, in my heart. 

~ Tina ~

Our View ...

(@ a distance: The Pryce Hotel)

 

(Macasandig, Cagayan de Oro City)

 

 (@ the distance: the sea port and The Gateway in Limketkai)

 

(Our Coconut Tree)

(View from my kitchen)

flowers ...

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. 

~Adabella Radici ~
 

 

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.  Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. 

~Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers

Nature @ It's Best!