WEDNESDAY @ 95 WEEKS AND HAPPY DIWALI

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Perry Como - It's a Lovely Day today.

Good afternoon from a lovely sunny city of Adelaide - and it is indeed a lovely day - sunshine, gentle breeze and coffee.

Today is the Indian Festival of Diwali - Festival of Lights - so Happy Diwali to you all.  My friend Jenny was at her Bank today and the Bank Officer wished her Happy Diwali and provided wonderful customer service.  

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I have had lots of conversations with birthday girl Daughter and been shopping for gifts for her and I think we have all bases covered now.  I was delighted when she said "I Have everything I need Mum - surprise me."   She rang early this morning and told me she wanted a packet of seeds for "Scarlet Runner Beans" and that made me smile - so tucked away in her gifts will be a packet of seeds.

I love birthday celebrations and the gathering of the clan - it is special to get together and I love hearing the discussions, debate and laughter.

Wherever you are in our beautiful world I hope you have all the support and love you need, a comfortable bed, someone to love you, laugh with you, cry with you, watch a movie with you - or just be with you.

I have so much to be thankful for and was amused to find myself singing this song early this morning whilst out shopping - I laughed at myself too.

There is a song in my heart and a spring in my step and I am glad to be alive on this lovely day.,

Enjoy your lovely day and find joy in the little things.

Love and hugs,

Linda. 

A WINTER THANKFUL THURSDAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj10EzNKA2M

Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond

Welcome to Thankful Thursday - may there be memories of daisies in your life,  your garden, lying in a meadow making daisy chains or perhaps daisies used at your wedding.   I remember as a child wearing daisies in my hair like a coronet and feeling I was queen of the world.

I have so much to be thankful for this Thankful Thursday (every day in fact) but I am going to be specific today in my thanks for the beauty I see around me in gardens and the delight that flowers bring to me.

I could spend all day naming flowers, their meanings and showing their images but I shall suffice in saying I love them all - their colour, their fragrance and beauty and each holds special memories for us I am sure.

The glorious golden daffodil - emblem of my beloved Wales is my all time favourite - it is strong and bends in the wind and brings brightness to the end of winter days.

Daffodil

To ask me to list in order those I like best would be something I could not do - I like the large bold flowers, the dainty small ones and the glorious wildflowers.   I love roses in all colours, but particularly cream and pink - I love wild roses in the hedgerow and I really like that each colour has a meaning. 

Tulips are truly beautiful too and the tulip fields of Holland would take my breath away.

Tulips

Violets, camellias, soft and beautiful Baby's Breath, bluebells, freesia, crocus, delphiniums, foxglove,sunflowers, snowdrops,  and so many more are all very beautiful.  I could not of course forget our beautiful Australian flowers - the Warratah, Banksia  and the Golden Wattle.

Warratah

Banksia

Golden Wattle

There is something all these plants and flowers have in common -

THEY BLOOM WHERE THEY ARE PLANTED.

On thinking about that - how much time we waste fretting and stressing because we don't think we are able to achieve anything, be anything, go anywhere and yet we have the opportunity to bloom where we are planted.  To grow and flower and make a difference in our little corner of the world.  Of course lots of plants are dug up and transplanted to other places, to once again "bloom where they are planted."

Wherever you are in our beautiful world I hope that your life is blossoming and that others can see the beauty that radiates from inside you.  Bloom where you are planted and make a difference with a smile, a kind word or a helping hand.

You make a difference to my world by just visiting and reading "The Musings from My Heart" and for that I am thankful.

May there be flowers in your life, love songs, conversation, time spent with those you love - laughter and close warm and intimate times.

Love and hugs,

Linda