And be sure to smell the flowers...

You're only here for a short visit. 

Don't hurry, don't worry. 

And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. 

Walter Hagen 

Hi my friends,

it's Friday again! Unbelievable, how fast time is running, like melting butter in the sun. It was just Monday, wasn't it? :-)


It seems for me that every week now is going bye faster than the the week before! And we are writing already the month of September, fall with all its magnificent colors is coming soon, waiting just around the corner.

Tomorrow is the Birthday of my son Daniel - and also this seems for me like I dreamed it: Not that long time ago I was just holding him in my arms as a little baby boy and today he has his own little family to take care of it. 
Time, time, time....!

I'm wishing you a wonderful Friday - enjoy your weekend and come back here on Sunday for "My Wordless Sunday" post. 


Love to see you visiting my blog - and don't forget, be sure to smell the flowers along your way :-)

~Susanne

 Put some colors to your life! 

Pep up those gray walls at home and in your office!!

Passion is universal...

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, 

romance and art would be useless. 

Honore de Balzac 

Hi my friends,

I love this quote of Honore de Balzac and I loved to read all his romance stories in my teens and later on. And he knows about love and passion!

I'm wishing you a happy Wednesday and thank you for all the kind comments to my last posts.

Have a sunny day!

~Susanne

*****

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Money won't make you happy....

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to 

find out for themselves. 

Zig Ziglar 

Hi my friends,

Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments and all those many "thumbs up" also on facebook to my last "Wordless Sunday" post.

We are absolutely NOT looking forward to Hurricane "Irene" who is coming this way towards the Florida East Coast - and the good news are, "she" will move more far out in to the Atlantic! We will get some heavy rain, that's for sure - but nothing more. 


And rain is always welcomed in Florida.

Thanks for that!

Wishing you ALL a nice Tuesday.

Susanne

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Who makes us happy.....

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Hi my friends,

It's long time since my last post, I know... 

If you were looking for me, sorry that you couldn't find me here. We had a lot to do recently and it's still going on. 

Hoping too for some more relaxing days in the near future. :-))

Wishing you a nice Thursday - and, see you here on Sunday again? 

It will be my "wordless Sunday" thing again.You know, you're always very welcome to see and to enjoy that picture with me... :-))

Susanne

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My Wordless Sunday - # 21

Have a wonderful Sunday - Schoenen Sonntag allerseits - Buona Domenica per tutti - Je te souhaite une merveilleux Dimanche - Szep vasarnapot kivanom!

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My Wordless Sunday - #19

 Have a wonderful Sunday - Schoenen Sonntag allerseits - Buona Domenica per tutti - Je te souhaite une merveilleux Dimanche - Szep vasarnapot kivanom!

http://susanne-van-hulst.artistwebsites.com 

The Scent with the Flowers of Spring

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson

Hi my friends,

Thank you so much for all your visits and comments to my last post. I do appreciate every single one! Thanks too for being back again :))

Be prepared for the "Raptor-Day" tomorrow - remember, if I'm not posting anymore on Sunday my "Wordless Sunday" thing...... I'll be gone....LOL...

Have a wonderful Friday - enjoy life as long you can :)

Susanne

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My Wordless Sunday - #16

Happy Easter to everybody!

Love is a Springtime Plant...

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert

Hi my friends,

Thank you very much for all your visits and your kind comments 

on my last post, you made my day with your kind words.

Thanks for coming back today!

Wishing you nice pre- Easter days and have a very safe trip, 

where ever you'll be traveling for Easter!

~Susanne

http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x      My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh      My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf      David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz       Dave's paintings on FAA
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My Wordless Sunday - # 15

Have a wonderful Sunday - Schoenen Sonntag allerseits - Buona Domenica per tutti - Je te souhaite une merveilleux Dimanche - Szep vasarnapot kivanom!

http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x      My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh     My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf     David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz      Dave's paintings on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9     Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall

My Wordless Sunday - #13

Have a wonderful Sunday - Schoenen Sonntag allerseits - Buona Domenica per tutti - Je te souhaite une merveilleux Dimanche - Szep vasarnapot kivanom!

http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x      My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh     My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf     David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz       Dave's paintings on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9     Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier

It's spring fever....

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is.  

And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, 

but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  

~Mark Twain~

 

 

 

 

Hi my friends,

 

Today is the first day in March - spring is getting ready for you!

 

I hope it's getting warmer up North a little bit - we arrived in the month of spring, he will be here soon. Let's celebrate! The dark days are over, the days of sun shine are getting longer with every day  -  and they will brighten up your soul!

Thank you all so much for the kind comments and compliments to my post yesterday, I do appreciate every single one.

 

Have a wonderful first day of March!

Susanne

http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz        Dave's paintings on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x       My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh      My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf      David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9      Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall

Agave Tequilana

Agave Tequilana in an artistic color - captured in Casa GrandeAZ

Agave tequilana,
commonly called blue agave, tequila agave, mezcal or maguey is an agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco, Mexico, due to its role as the base ingredient of tequila, a popular distilled spirit. The high production of sugars—mostly in the form of fructose—in the core of this plant, are the most important element for the preparation of alcoholic beverages.
The tequila agave is a native of Jalisco, Mexico. The tequila agave favors high altitudes of more than 1,500 meters and grows in rich and sandy soils. While commercial and wild agaves have different life cycles, both grow into large succulents, with spiky fleshy leaves, that can reach over two meters in height. Wild Agaves, however, sprout a shoot when about five years old, that can grow an additional five meters and are topped with yellow flowers.

The flowers are pollinated by a native bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) and produce several thousand seeds per plant. The plant then dies. The shoots are removed when about a year old from commercial plants to allow the heart to grow larger. The plants are then reproduced by planting these shoots; this has led to a considerable loss of genetic diversity in cultivated blue agave.

It is rare for one kept as a houseplant to flower; nevertheless, a fifty year old blue agave in Boston grew a 10 m (30 ft) stalk requiring a hole in the greenhouse roof and flowered in the summer of 2006.

Tequila is produced by removing the heart of the plant in its twelfth year. Normally weighing between 35–90 kg (77–198 lb). This heart is stripped of its leaves and heated to remove the sap, which is fermented and distilled. Other beverages like mezcal and pulque are also produced from blue and other agaves by different methods (though still using the sap) and are regarded as more traditional.

Researchers from Mexico's University of Guadalajara believe blue agave contains compounds that may be useful in carrying drugs to the intestines to treat diseases, such as Crohn's disease and colitis.

I hope you'll enjoy the read! Thank you foe all the comments on my last post!

Susanne

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http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x      My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh     My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf     David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9      Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall

You cannot ever be ugly

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.  You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.  

~Roald Dahl~

Hi my friends,

I love this quote! 

Quotes are always telling the true of meanings in life and are mirroring the good and bad things happen around you - quotes are like talking pictures.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and for the comments too. Sometimes I wish, there would be some more, but that's fine with me how it is now. I know you all have a lot of things going on in these days - Christmas is just around the corner.

If you're looking for a special gift for that special someone, maybe I have the answer to it:

Buy my photography as a print, framed or stretched on Canvas here. 

Happy Tuesday!

~Susanne

oh, I almost forget to tell you: it's only 37F in Florida, just now! brrrrr....brrrr....

Tranquility

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
    wise long for a state of tranquility.

~Swami Rama~ 

Hi my friends,

Happy Monday!!! I hope you had all a great Thanksgiving Weekend with your loved ones and friends. By us it was very quiet and relaxed.

It's raining like crazy today in the Sunshine State. 

But, we need the rain badly and that's why it's good and we are thankful for the water - it washes off our car too  :))

Thank you very much for all your wonderful comments yesterday, 

I'm happy you liked my post so much.

~Susanne

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My European friends buy the calendars here

Crane Flower or the Bird of Paradise Flower

Bird of paradise flower - captured in San Diego CA

Birds of Paradise, 

also known as Crane flowers are one of the most beautiful Exotic Flowers. Birds of Paradise are native to South Africa. Birds of Paradise bloom from September through May.

The flowers of the Birds of Paradise resemble a brightly colored bird in flight and so the name Birds of Paradise.

To read more about go here 

Hi my friends,

Thank you so much for all those kind comments in my last post.

For today I have a pretty Crane Flower for you, it is better known as the Bird of Paradise.

Yeah, weekend is here, soon - and I wish you a wonderful one. Make it to your best!

~Susanne

All my CALENDARS 2011 are available to buy here: 

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Make your mental blue print

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. 

Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Robert Collier

Hi my friends,

I like this quote very much and it's true. 

Everything in life begins with a mental blueprint. 

Let's start today!

Thank you for all your kind comments, they are like always, very much appreciated.

~Susanne

I have created some NEW CALENDARS 2011 - they make a nice Christmas gift, don't you think? 

Now, they are all available to buy too!

My friends and fans in America buy it here:

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My European friends and fans buy my calendars here:

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Red as Blood...

Red as blood

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, 

our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.
Melissa Auf der Maur

Hi my friends,

thanks for all the comments from yesterday, very much appreciated, every single one!

I wish you a nice day - happy Thursday every one!

See you soon - be happy :)

Susanne

ADD  COLORS  TO  YOUR  LIFE!!!

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On a Red Afternoon

I call this photo: "On a red afternoon" - it is a variation of my "Wordless Sunday" photo from yesterday. 

I like it in red, actually I like it way better than the wordless photograph. 

What about you?

btw, thank you for all those wonderful compliments! You all made my day :)

Susanne

And then again: of course, ALL my photographs are for sale! Thank you!

My Wordless Sunday #32