And if you'd like to see a really good post about butterflies I invite you to visit Rae @
Rae Ann's Magical Thinking
Aaaah the Sun shines through at last, even for a moment
Aaaah the heavens open again, nice weather for ducks!
Wishing you all a beautiful day!
Thanks Quasar. I agree with the Watson quote.
Our yards have many hummingbirds this time of year. Amazing creatures.
Hi don,
Yep, the watson quote speaks for itself.
You are the lucky one. I've got a special place in my heart for hummingbirds, they used to come to my place in ones and twos everyday in Venezuela, but not quite warm enough for them in England.
Here's Wishing you a fine day!
La gente realmente grande está, sobre todo,
cortesano, considerado y abundante
no apenas alguna gente en algunas circunstancias
pero a cada uno toda la hora.
Muy acertadas estas palabras...
Tu fotografia es preciosa.
Besos muchos Quasar.
Sedna, encanto, amor, cielo!
Gracias por tu visita. Paso siempre por tu Eden para revolotear, gozar y disfrutar de tus palabras llenas de promesas de amor y pasion con tanta emocion e ilusion.
Besos aereos vuelven a ti por miles.
La gente, realmente grande, son las que más humildad poseen.
La foto es preciosa, me encantan los colibrí.
Un abrazo desde el sur del sur
Wonderful picture. Reminds me of my daily visitor to some flowers in my yard. The little visitor arrives like clockwork at 5 p.m. every day.
Wonderful quote, wonderful reminder. I will take that through my day with me.
Have a glorious evening. 
OHHHHHHH love it, love the hummers, I have feeders out, and I have hours of enjoyment watching them. They seem to be a bit territorial, they do a lot of scrapping for placement. So I put out several smaller ones.
I love the Gloriosa Lily that it is feeding on, also.....I used to have these, but not anymore. sniff sniff.
The measure of greatness......an interesting question, isn't it.....and do we all strive for greatness? Courteous....hmmmmmmmm, considerate,......hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, generous,........hmmmmmmmmmmmm, sometimes. NOT always, I have a long way to go.............
Hola Trini, esperando estes disfrutando este domingo. Pase portus dos jardines para deleitar de tus poemas, delicias del Sur.
Un abrazo aereo vuelve a ti desde aqui.
Hi Serenity, nice yards always attract little visitors looking for bright colours, aromatic fragances and the essence of life.
I have visions of you dancing and fluttering thru the day. Hope yours turns out to be a magical afternoon.
I'll be round laters see what thoughts you been meditating on.
PS - It's actually stopped raining here, the grass now well and truly watered. That sunshine you expressed arrived across the pond via Japan, and the Sun at last shines bright in pale blue skies.
Hi Nea, it is not only man that is territorial, just that the birds including hummingbirds are more 'civilized' - they just have staggered feeding or drinking times.
I used to get dozens thru the day come to my spot in the hills, each seemed to have their own preferred time and destination. They'd come hither & tither they'd hum & hover, they'd drink and feed and then fly off to the next flowerbed. Very very civilized. But I guess if they cross paths, or their wires get crossed, well its like people chasing after a free parking space in the City. lol
The measure of greatness, like all things it's the spirit of the law, not the letter. One cannot walk down the street and wish a good day to all and sundry who walks by, but one can radiate 'goodwill'
One cannot hep every old lady across the road - some might take offence if one bunch of girl scouts takes them across, and another bunch takes them right back. But offering a seat on a bus to an old lady, or a pregnant lady, is quite common around here - even among unruly teenagers ...
Generosity, well I've only got two kidneys ...
so I guess I'm limited in how many I could donate. lol!
But hmmmmm would I begrudge someone else anything, whatever it is they have? I don't think so
Would I generally lend my coat or sandals ... yes except nobody thinks much of my one old coat. lol!
Would I deny anyone a glass of water, and insist they buy 'bottled' water???
Would I deny someone reading a paper or book I've already read???
Yet some people are so mean and miserly, they probably would tell you to go and get your own.
Quasar,
Thank you for sharing your light, your clarity, and your warmth. I am blessed, and humbled.
And yes, I choose to dance through my day, always
And I knew the sunshine would reach you...I bottled it and sent it speedy delivery
Hi Serenity, thanks for the sunshine. It has made the grass now well watered glisten in the light.
Jesus Green looks positively replenished. Love your post for today short & sweet and full of love.
May love surround & envelop your every thought and deed. Laters ... Q
Thank you for your visit and your comment, as always Quasar. You bring your light and sunshine every time you arrive. May your sleep be blissful with magical dreams.
Hi Universe Keeper,
How are you and how you been? Hope your weekend was good.
I really like the quote from this post!!
Great quote Q. Even better picture.
Hi Serenity, my sleep was peaceful thank you. So peaceful indeed I forgot to dream. Here's hoping love wraps your days your thoughts your dreams.
Hi Empress precious princess,
arigatou ana-chan, my weekend was good, hope your days in BKK were fun too. Look forward to the pics when they arrive. Here's thinking of ya, loving ya, smiling at ya.
Hi Quilldancer, thanks!
I see the voting on the fabricated tales at your place has started in earnest, may the tallest tale win. lol!
I need to borrow this quote..hope this is okay.
Hi Beth, of course, for sure you can can
it is from famous quotes, and if you click on his name you'll find more, but this one is probably his best and most apt for where my thoughts were on the day
Hi Q,
Your quote and picture have once again helped to get my morning off to a good start
Smiling back at ya!
And what a beaming smile it is precious princess, you brighten up my day. Who needs the Sun or the stars, when you are the brightest star.
Hi Sandy, glad you are back. So I see you had a nice time hiking.
PS - Isn't Cloe a little short to count as a horse. lol!
many many more smiles for you universe keeper.
How can I be the brightest star in such a vast universe? we are all shining brightly!
Smiles and smiles and more smiles. And remember to dance
Just popped by to send you some love, hugs, and smiles.
For those of you who like butterflies and transformation.
arigatou ana-chan precious princess
Indeed when we look at the skies we see all stars shine brightly, some appear brighter because theu are closer, some less bright because they are further.
And what determines how bright each star is and how near or how far ...
The star that shines brightest shines brightest in the day and in the night no matter how near or yet how far.
One thousand smiles and good wishes return to you Oh Empress of the brightest star
Hi Serenity, your love, hugs and smiles wrap themselves like a warm glow all around me making me feel better and better as the day progresses.
Here's wishing you a thousand peaceful thoughts covered in hugs and kisses.
Hi Plato, I've just been looking at your (metaphysical) metamorphosis. I had stopped by there and glanced before, but since you have highlighted I looked further in depth. I note you do actually deal with time scales in the human context, can they be applied to physics and matter(?):
Lets just say, that if the speed through which we had measured something was infinitely slow on a macro scale , how fast indeed would all life be (have been) contained in that blink of a eye? So what are we seeing then, that a whole life has been reviewed?
Does one then recognize that indeed, choice is the heart of all matters, and what moves such matters that we indeed recognize something anmidst its formation. That all energy in motion recognizes, that it has its motivation to be, and what gave it so?
Thank you for the hugs and kisses. They are most welcome, as I lost some drafts and a post to cyber heaven, and so came back here to bask in the love, the glow, the light, the hugs, and the joy
Hi Serenity, just got to go back out for a bit, then riffle thru betmo's political posts. I know I know entanglement, but the 'real world' still surrounds us, even if it no longer envelopes us.
And then I shall be round yours to relax serenely, and drink from your peaceful thoughts from your blog, and maybe chat a little in the cosy comfort of your company.
thanks, quasar, for the reference to my blog . great quote. couldn't agree more.
Hi Diana, you are welcome. I just loved the picture when I saw it at your place. Hope you are having a nice day! - Q.
Ahhhhh. Coming back to the hummingbird and the bubbles is so relaxing. Thank you for your visit
Hi serenity
So how's your day going. Glad yourfriend managed to recover the post you lost in cynerspace
Quasar,
Thank you, I am too. It's been one of those days where everything is trying very hard to go wrong, but I am STILL dancing. How was your day?
Hi Serenity,
easy day, sunshine between rainy splahes. Just sitting here huggling some thoughts, dancing in my head.
Huggling some thoughts. That sounds splendid!! I am so glad you have had a light, breezy, easy day.
I'm working on reconstructing some lost words, so all is good, and I think I'll huggle some thoughts too.
lol! Not intentional at all
was meant to read juggling
but huggling will do fine for you + me
That is the first enthusiastic laugh of my day ... so I'll keep to the "huggling" thoughts.
They may have to add it to the Oxford dictionary:
juggling words means juggling words
Huggling words means hugging And juggling words
I like it.....word for the day: huggle.
It fits, and it is officially in my dictionary,whether Oxford wants it or not.
Well I reckon if they can have
tog and toggle
jug and juggle
then they can have
hug and huggle
huggle toggle juggle bubble (bubbles)
huggle toggle juggle words + thoughts
Loved your happiness shared post & pic
I think you are on to something big....certainly brings a smile and a warmth to the heart, the value of which cannot be measured by an objective standard.
Well the thoughts were partly based on don's poem about looking at the clouds. I always feel that when clouds take shape (make shapes) one can almost see the intangible force or being that is behind the form. We have these more physical material forms (bodies) but the clouds in the skies are pretty much like the spirit held within. Except it is easier for a cloud to gather water (liquid) or dissipate (evaporate) into non-visible thin air
What lovely thoughts to be juggling/huggling. And what an honor and a joy that you would share them with me. And I am struck by the truth in that. As a child, gazing up into the clouds while lying on the grass in the park, I could feel that sense of oneness with the shapes and forms as they shifted and morphed and created magical dreams in my mind.
Serenity, if you want some reading (not a lot) there's an interesting link above on the comment by plato to his post on butterflies and transformation. Very metaphysical perceptions from a logical mind, dealing with the tangible world of physics and the intangible, that just beyond our mental perceptions or physical sight
Dear Quasar,
In Scientific American, Leonard Susskind describes strings as being like hummingbird's wings. "The string's oscillations are usually too rapid to detect. One cannot see the wings of a hovering hummingbird, because its wings flutter too fast. But in a photograph taken with a fast shutter speed, one can see the wings - so the bird looks bigger."
"Similarly, if a hummer falls into a black hole, an observer will see its wings take form as the bird approaches the horizon and the vibrations appears to slow down; it seems to grow. Now suppose that the wings have feathers that flap even faster. Soon these, too, would come into view, adding further to the apparant size of the bird. The observer sees the hummer enlarge continuously. However, the participant who falls into a black hole with the hummingbird sees no such strange growth or changes in the bird."
"A string is minute. But as a string falls into a black hole, its vibrations slow down and become visible. The behavior of a string in its higher mode freezes out. The string spreads and grows, just as if it was being bombarded by particles and radiation in a very hot environment. In a relatively short time, the string and all the information it carries is smeared over the entire horizon."
By the way, please don't think that I'm infatuated with Prof. Susskind. I simply find the way he conveys physics to be highly polished yet -at the same time- remarkably amusing. Even though I share a vast number of his political views, I lack his desire to dig around into the dirt of the landscape.
Have an enjoyable week!
Sincerely,
You know, I was intending on clicking on that link....it is so spectacular to me the frequency with which the butterfly has come up as a symbol of transformation for me in the last 8 months or so. I painted one about three or so months ago, as a totally free-form, abstract kind of creation from the spirit. And now, butterflies are emerging all over the place in my cyber wanderings. So thank you for reminding me to click through.
Hi Cynthia beautiful string winged hummingbird of the sky.
You do realise that if anything falls into a blackhole it most probably does so from the horizon of said blackhole, and is attracted by gravity towards the dense mass point (or singularity) within.
Why on earth should I think you are infatuated with Prof Susskind, you totally misinterpreted my intent that day. I agreed with you and shared with you inthe elegance of Prof Susskind's theory, however where I differ with him is in that he needs to fold his flat atlaslike landscape into an earthlike sphere (globe), with all his pocket universes not beyond any 'artificial' cosmic event horizon millions of light years away, but folded into one Megaverse, right here and around us...
PS - Have you heard 3000 scientists are gathered to vote whether finally to allow Pluto to remain a planet or demote it to dwarf planet or moon sized ice ball
Serenity, I would love to see any drawings or abstract sketches you create.
Q:
At some point I'll work up some courage for that. That is lovely of you to express that interest.
Well Serenity, with those thoughts I'll javeto take my leave, andrest my head, so that I may awake with the dawn. Alas no chorus of hymmingbirds to greet me in the morn, but starlings and birds a plenty start chirping to welcome the light rays of day.
So if you've already been to Plato's butterflies link, I have one more place of beauty for you to go:
http://www.robharrington.blogspot.com/
for some awesome pictures of nature and sceneries. Look for Miner's Castle a pure inspiring work of art by nature
Thank you Quasar. Dreams of magic and loveliness to you. Thanks for the links.
And funny you should mention Pluto. I just finished weaving that into my post... lolol
Synchronicity Serenity,
the only thing separating us is geography and time zone, but we are certainly united by light at the speed of light online.
Looking forward some day to share spaces much closer, in a like time zone, bringing synchronicity that much closer still
Sharing sleep and dream patterns too - hmmm
So here's wishing you a lovely evening and should I find you online to continue our talk in time we can in the morrow ...
Q,
Unfortunately, we have continued to allow Pluto to have a "dual citizenship" as a planet in the inner solar system and as an object in the Kuiper Belt.
Doubtlessly, culture has placed a strong sentimental value upon Pluto as a planet. But for the sake of "solar-fairness", Pluto should be reclassified as a Kuiper object along with other great objects in the Kuiper Belt.
Look at it with this array of optimism...While presently having a rather lowly status as a minuscule planet within the inner solar system, Pluto will be granted a lofty status as a mammoth in the Kuiper Belt.
Cynthia, dual citizenship is good.
The birds in the sky have it migrating from the northern hemisphere to the south in winter and back to the northern hemisphere in the summer. It is still said they are guided more by 'pathways' and air currents during their flight, rather than by geographical landmarks or features below.
All men and women should have dual nationality. Then they can migrate when their country declares false wars, and or migrate when employment opportunities are better ...
but most important migrate when the climate suits them most.
Of course Plutonians, Ice Queens and Antartica lovers, and skiers, obviously enjoy the white snow, and cannot wait for the peaks & pistes to be covered in the white stuff.
Not sure if the Kuiper Belt is on my list of to dos, but I'm sure with you as my guide I could be persuaded to go anywhere there is a dance in the great cosmic ballroom (and beyond)
Thank you for the visit and the comment. Working on some digital art, and the comment pop-up on my screen was a delight. Hope your rest was....well restful, and that you have a glorious, beauty-filled day.
You too Serenity
Have a good rest
Arise filled with light
Thanks, Quasar...your comments on my freak dilemma made my day.
Hi Beth, now I've got your link, I'll be round to visit more often.
Wishing you a nice day!
Going with my bubbles theme of the last couple of days, here's a pic to humour your day:
Woman in a bubble
ooooooooh..the woman in a bubble..I like that..I may have to use that too..if that is okay.
Hi Beth, by all means you may use it. You are most welcome.
I got the pic from:
http://centrodemisojos.blogspot.com/
who got it from some free share source
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Hi Q:
Hope this finds you well rested and ready for another glorious day.
(Just wondering if you have an email address you share. I'm doing some reading, and it would be great to bounce a few thoughts your way. My site has an e-mail link on it. I know a lot of people already feel overloaded with input and want to avoid e-mail traps so it's all good if you don't.)
Remember to dance
Hi Serenity, will e-mail you.
Yes the temptation to e-mail all & sundry, to reach them with our thoughts or express our wishes, is one I like everyone else have been known to fall into in the past.
Do you have msn messenger chatting online is no more public than blog commenting, cheaper than phone calls, and can be quicker or more connected (instant) than e-mail.
Quasar: I use Trillian, so yes, I can add an MSN line to that....shoot me an e-mail and I'll let you know the screen name. And I know what you mean about e-mail. It just seemed more efficient than posting up your blog comments box with discussions that would probably hold no interest to very many others.
Hi Serenity, catch up with you sometime this evening, late evening my time if you are online.
Till then hugs & best wishes.
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