Southland's Xanga

Monday, October 19, 2009

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:39:09 GMT

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world. Eckhart Tolle

this image is submitted to The Women's Colony photo challenge.

Syrah grapes (being pressed for wine)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:39:28 GMT

Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:05:21 GMT

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....Unknown

Praying Mantis

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:26:00 GMT

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. Jacques Cousteau

Starfish/Carrion flower

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:48:55 GMT

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception. Lotte Lehmann

(see whole flower here)

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:34:31 GMT

Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
~Raymond Carter

Monday, July 27, 2009

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:24:19 GMT

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land. Carter Heyward

Cactus bloom

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:16:58 GMT

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Auguste Rodin

Treefrog

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:02:35 GMT

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. Jodi Picoult

Monday, June 29, 2009

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:47:45 GMT

We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't. Frank A Clark