notice beauty

The 6 am morning glow through my little 2nd floor window…The choir of birds that chaperone me on my morning walk…Old friends meeting on the bus…New friends meeting on the bus…The little 2 year old boy, with his mom, who yelled out “I’m not a baby!”

International students from all over the world…all in one place, all speaking, sharing, learning. It’s great!

Went down to the coast this afternoon – and what a day it was! Absolutely gorgeous weather! I think everything about the seaside is beautiful: the way the sand lies in ripples while the tide is out; the cry of the seagull overhead; the pebbles and shells; the sea-worn groynes hung with algae and sea weed; the dazzling sparkle of the sun on the waves; and possibly best of all – the smell of the sea! I forgot my camera but fortunately my mum didn’t mind too much when I commandeered hers :)

“The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.”

-Frenard Leger, painter

e’s red carnations and the smell of roses :)

Took this picture on the way to the train station the other morning. It amazes me how simple grass can look so magnificent – it’s really brought home to me that the beauty’s there, you just have to look out for it. I love this so much because it reminds me of waves or a river, the way the grass is rippling :)

The clouds over Western North Carolina for the last couple of days have been spectacular.

we have tumblers that have a criss-cross pattern, and the light shining through one of them onto the table was beautiful. no rainbows, but a grid of light and dark in a kind of equilateral triangular shape with the point at the base of the glass, two concave sides and a convex one (so not really a triangle at all, but that’s the best way i know how to describe it). i’m only sorry i don’t have a digital camera to be able to show you all. you’ll just have to use your imaginations.

This is a photo I took on Easter Sunday 2007 at a National Trust house and gardens. I thought this tree was so beautiful, all out in snowy white blossoms and I love that light, fresh green of the new spring leaves. It was so warm and the sky was so blue, even though it was only April! But then we have just had the hottest April on record here in England.

in the wind. a drifting snow of soft petals and a sweet, delicate fragrance. i know i’m repeating myself but i don’t care: i appreciated it again yesterday and so it’s worth another entry.