365 Things That Inspire Me: April 2011

365 Things That Inspire Me

I also do posts for my clay group, beads-of-clay.org. Twice now, I have posted pictures that I took on walks with my dogs in a park near here, 3 Creeks. I post these as creative inspiration for my fellow artists and jewelry designers. These posts have been so well received that I decided to start a blog with daily inspiration in the form of pictures, quotes and poems. These pictures will be things from my immediate environment that I find inspirational or beautiful; textures, colors, contrasts, animals, unusual things, intriguing things. A daily dose of wonder....

"Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, and of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, THINK on these things."

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush is afire with God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes."
E.B. Browning

It's all for Joy!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

April 17 2011 Another Tree

Here is another gorgeous flowering tree, a giant: this one lives 3 doors down from me. I don't know what kind of tree it is. The trees here are just beautiful this year. So lovely after a hard cold winter.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

April 16 2011 Magnolia Tree

In the past week, all the flowering trees here have burst into bloom. Our little post office in Groveport has the most magnificent magnolia tree that I have ever seen. It is huge...covered with, it must be, thousands of gigantic blossoms. I walked underneath it and it was like being in a fairy world.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

April 6 2011

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves
of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the
ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves by
without wondering." -- St. Augustine, 354-430 A.D.