Favorite Words of the Day

"If you went to a Chinese restaurant, would you be happy if they brought out all the ingredients or would you rather have the dish?"

Spoken by Cindy Morris at Priestess Chronicles -Check her out, she's good stuff!! http://priestessentrepreneur.com/blog/

She loves quince bushes so here's a quince photo for her.
Thank you Cindy !

A Great Nilda Story

When my grandmother died, we all gathered for a real celebration of her life. One good thing about wakes and funerals is that we often get to hear stories about the person who has passed that we did not know before. At Nilda's wake, her long time employee, (around 40 years) Joey Moreschi, came to the wake with his wife with a handful of flowers wrapped in tin foil. I said, "Joey, what are those flowers? Let me get you a vase." And he told me this: Many years ago, in the early years of Edenwald Contracting, the construction company my grandparents started in the 1940's in New York City, Joey went to a garden center with my grandmother to help her pick out plants and flowers for her home in Scarsdale, NY. He always did the plantings at her home each Spring and pretty much helped her do just about anything that needed doing at her home with George Follini, my grandfather. They walked around the garden center and picked out her favorite things and she asked him, just for fun, if there was anything here you would like, what would it be? He said, that magnolia, which was a rare and very expensive tree back in those days. The next day it was delivered to his house as a gift from her. This was the kind of thing Nilda did all the time. So 40 years later, Joey shows up at her funeral with the blossoms from that now mature tree, which happened to be blooming at the time of her death. PERFECT!

Happy Birthday Nilda Follini

Today is my grandmother's birthday. She would have been 98 years old. She died 3 years ago and had a most amazing 95 years on the earth. She loved her family with such abundance and our lives were so incredibly blessed by her presence and her love and her unending generosity.
She was one of the most significant people in my life and she stood with me as witness at my wedding as my matron of honor at 89 years old. Lucky me to have had the love of this sweet soul for 40 years of my life. God Bless Nilda Follini, you are sorely missed.

Boulder Wedding Showcase Success!

Thanks to all the brides, grooms and families for coming out to the Boulder Wedding Showcase on Sunday the 31st. It was great to meet all of you and hope to see you here in the studio soon.
Congratulations on your engagements and best wishes with all the wedding planning!

Full Moon - Boulder, Colorado

How about that amazing full moon this weekend. The Moon was so bright because it was at perigee, the part of the Moon's orbit closest to Earth. This favorable geometry made the Moon appear 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser moons of 2010. It was quite a perigee Moon. The lightest image here is the morning sun in fog. Kate at the sweetbird.blogspot.com called to tell me to check it out as the sun looked like the moon that morning, the same day as this awesome full moon.

Michael Franti -Hey World for Haiti

Michael Franti, FrantiV: Hey World (Haiti Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSj1xF6G924

The music video for "Hey World" recreated to remember the disaster in Haiti.

OUCH!

Sometimes it's just too much and all we can say is OUCH!

Boulder Wedding Showcase

Boulder Wedding Showcase www.boulderweddingshowcase.com
This Sunday January 31, Boulder Theater 11-3 Come see us and find your wedding photographer www.11-11productions.com

Let me Sow Love

Sigh

It seems it's even more urgent to share the love these days. A lot of suffering around me only makes me want to believe in the power of love, to trust the journey, the path, your own heart.

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

� Mary Oliver.

Pastures of Plenty 2

More photos from Pastures of Plenty and Big Bang Catering. www.bigbangcatering.com
A great venue for a wedding. Check it out!