Butterfly Kiss

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun


And find your shoulder to light on,


To bring you luck, happiness and riches


Today, tomorrow and beyond.


~Irish Blessing

A Visitor To Musashi's Garden

I'm joining Camera Critters today to share a visitor to Musashi's Garden.

The Giant Swallowtail Butterfly

A really big dude!

He stayed in the garden for quite awhile giving me a chance to grab the camera, run out the door, 

and without scaring him away, take a few shots.

A real treat.

Wishing YOU well and a joy filled weekend!

Note Card Party: Butterflies

Every third Wednesday of the month,

Vee at A Haven For Vee

sponsors a Note Card Party.

The rules are easy:

Search for 4 photographs on your own blog that would make a nice set of Note Cards.

The images must appear on your blog by the time you link up.

Write your post and have it posted before linking up with Vee.

I decided butterflies would make lovely Note Cards.

It's fun to visit with Vee and dream about new Note Cards!

How old-fashioned and wonderful!

Don't forget to check out my Summer Curiosities Give-A-Way!

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Happy Mother's Day!

I thought sharing these images from Musashi's Garden

was the perfect way to celebrate

Mother's Day!

Enjoy!

Thank you to:

The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday

and

Mary for Mosaic Monday.

Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Journal Friday

It's been awhile since I've posted just journal pages. I've been spreading them around in other posts. So, today -- Just Journal Pages -- sort of!

Flower Bomb
This just fell right into place.
No thinking involved!

B is For ....
Birds and Butterflies
This took a while.
Mostly paper, a stencil, stamp, clip art.
I wanted to do this in my journal before I tried it on canvas.
I'm thinking about transferring it to cloth and making something.

Lastly, this is Teddy when he was a baby.
Always ruling the roost!
4 x 5 canvas kept simple

Enjoy your Friday.

Joy to You!

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Finally, one of the beautiful butterflies visiting Musashi's Garden
decided to be still long enough to get its portrait taken!

I took lots of photos of this Black Swallowtail.
Most of them were blurry.
This little lady was in a big hurry to eat and didn't slow down much.

She really liked the zinnias.

Drink, Drink, Drink

Here she is in all her glory hanging on to our tangerine tree.
By the time I opened the patio door to get closer -
she was gone.

(Click to enlarge the photos.)

Smile - it's catching!

Joy to You!

Sunday Morning

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:
a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child --
our own two eyes.
All is a miracle."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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It's Time For Camera Critters!

I have a question for you.
What is magic?

For me, this is MAGIC.
Mother Nature in all her glory.

There is a little story about the blooming cosmos.
I have seed packets that are so old, I should be ashamed of myself.
The cosmos comes from one of those packets.
I put the seeds into a pot and said,
"If they come up - great -- if not -- at least I put them in soil ... late or not!"
And, look what came up.
These beautiful pink cosmos.

This picture of the pink cosmos and critter friend was taken
on February 5, 2009 by Mr. Dragon.

MAGIC!