Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

See through yellow petals, Shadows drawn with a pallet knife

Life seeps away with falling blossoms, Spring leaves left behind, Wet petals everywhere!  

Question:  Are Mallorca* Pearls Real? Answer#1:  Yes, otherwise, they would be virtual. Answer#2:  According to our Brave Traveling Photographer's research, the number of oysters needed to produce one natural Oyster pearl would be... " about 1 in 12,000, (google) " So we now see why people create pearls from glass seeds covered with closely-guarded secret substances such as, (shhhhh), fishscales.  Regardless, Mallorca Pearls are beautiful. Creating Mallorca Pearls Woman adding final layers to Mallorca Pearls * Note:  Mallorca (Majorca) is one of Spain's Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean. It's known for beach resorts, sheltered coves, limestone mountains and Roman and Moorish remains. Capital Palma has nightlife, the Moorish Almudaina royal palace and 13th-century Santa María Cathedral. Stone-built villages include Pollença, with its art galleries and music festival, and hillside Fornalutx, surrounded by citrus plantations (googled Mall

Snowdrops are unfolding, daffodils are three inches tall! Oh how I love this spring, baring its soul for one more season.  Ghost Tulip from Yesteryear

I remember a broken rabit-hut behind the Idle Hour.  This winter snapshot from a trailways bus just missed it; it's up the trail a ways past a frozen spring.   There it is after these many years, full of ghosts, abandoned, screen door leading to the empty porch.

As legend has it, those who trudge the paths to see these Golden Mountains receive a Golden Chance. Beyond all expectation, our adventure-ridden photographer has trudged these paths and captured the essence of their Golden Spirit. Look deeply into their Golden Image, and you will receive your Golden Chance.  We don’t know how, we don’t know when, so be aware and on the lookout. Make haste!  As the days dwindle and the temperatures drop below a certain event horizon, escape from their Golden beauty becomes impossible. Add caption Crestone’s Golden Mountains

It was a cold day with fog and rain and grey-rimmed clouds, when there appeared a long covered bridge. I think it was real, since such things exist in the ancient myths of New England.