We are not quite there …
Filed under: Spring, Still-Life, Thoughts, View, Weather, Windows | Tagged: looking-glass | 4 Comments »
Crossing a Bridge …
Posted on June 16, 2008 by riihele
In any relationship, the essence of trust is not
in its bind, but in its bond.
Filed under: Children, Ireland, Life, Photos, Thoughts, Treasures, Words | Tagged: Bridge, Powerscourt | 2 Comments »
Mum You Are …
Posted on May 10, 2008 by riihele
It is one of the greatest privileges in life to be a mum. NOTICE THIS: that in the wide world there is a mother dying every few seconds – the Unicef article of 2003 states that 1400 mothers die every day because of the complications of the pregnancy and the birth.Here is what the UNICEF says about it all. It is nigh impossible to fathom for us in the west and in the parts of the world where the antenatal and the postnatal care are taken for granted.
Filed under: A Woman's Work, Beauty, Children, Gardens, Life, Memories, Motherhood, Photos, Roses, Thoughts, flower-power | Tagged: celebration, mothers-day | 2 Comments »
Coming or Going …
Posted on March 24, 2008 by riihele
Our weather does not know whether it is coming or going presently; that is to say if the winter is finally at its end as in the photo underneath
or if the spring has finally sprung on us and staying?!! Every other day it is winter and then the next day it is [...]
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Waking Up, Getting Up …
Posted on March 19, 2008 by riihele
The average, healthy,
well-adjusted adult
gets up
at seven-thirty
in the morning
feeling
just plain terrible.
Jean Kerr
Filed under: All-Creatures, Humour, Laughter, Life, Living, Quotes, Thoughts | 2 Comments »
Knitting or Stitch ‘n Bitch
Posted on January 22, 2008 by riihele
“Those of you who feel knitting has changed your life, welcome to the club. I can think of no better occupation to reveal your own creativity.”
Kaffe Fassett
Wikipedia defines knitting as “a method by which thread or yarn may be turned into cloth. Knitting consists of loops called stitches pulled through each [...]
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!
Posted on December 31, 2007 by riihele
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR 2008,
FULL of WONDERS!
HUGZ from Rii
I put this photo of mine, taken in the spring, looking through a window,
for to [...]
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LITERACY or Love of Reading
Posted on December 19, 2007 by riihele
“What I can think about, I can talk about. What I can say, I can write. What I can write, I can read.
I can read what I can write and what other people can write for me to read.”
Professor Roach Van Allen
The picture, – do click at it to make it clearer, please [...]
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Pearls of Wisdom…
Posted on December 17, 2007 by riihele
“ALL ART IS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL;
The Pearl
is the oyster’s
autobiography.“
Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
(Picture off the net)
NOTE:
Fellini had a great knack of saying things so concisely and yet with such great depth.
— All art is saying something about the person making the art. A pearl is the oyster’s story about the oyster.
(An oyster is a [...]
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James Bond of the Cat World: Simon D Pud
Posted on December 9, 2007 by riihele
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.“
(Leonardo da Vinci)
This ‘James Bond of Cats’ with an attitude that is cattitude
and who does impersonate ‘Kramer’ to the T by his sudden barges and skidding;
also does ‘Cato’ with his sudden surprise attacks making me scream
- every time – but making him is so pleased that he chuckles to himself, [...]
Filed under: All-Creatures, Cats, Fluff & Stuff, Nature, Thoughts | 4 Comments »
