Be healthy, wise 

and compassionate.

Be very fortunate!

When I am writing,

I do not distinguish between 

the natural and supernatural.

Everything seems real.

That is my world, 

you could say.

Haruki Murakami

Happiness is not something ready made,

it comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

It was pride that changed angels into devils,

it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine

Preach the Gospel at all times

and when necessary use words.

Francis of Assisi

Gute Besserung, Schumi!

=^..^=

Know the rules well,

so you can break them effectively.

Dalai Lama

I think the lily of the valley is 

the emblem flower of Finland...

One small positive thought in the morning

can change your whole day.

It is easy to find treasures on pages

if one reads with the heart open...

=^..^=

Francis Meilland Hybrid Tea Rose,

Meitroni,

the most beautiful rose in 2013,

selected by the All-America Rose Selections.

Now the year is ending, the news are packed with important people who did this and that, and flowers have no room there, but they have its place here on our blog. Of course.

"Flowers are the sweetest things 

that god ever made,

and forgot to put a soul into".

Henry Beecher

Call it devotion

or call it nature.

But love it.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her under their own fashion.

Michael Ende

If you would know strength and patience,

welcome the company of trees.

Hal Borland

I go to nature to be soothed and healed,

andto have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

on feline etiology...

Ready?

=^..^=

Life is my college.

may I graduate well,

and earn some honours.

Louisa May Alcott

Happy Face Spider - click

Happy Face Spider wishes you a merry 2014

Believe that life is worth living

and your believe will create the fact.

William James

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

The measure of your maturity

is how spiritual you become

during the midst 

of your frustrations.

Samuel Ullman

I like all sorts of roses,

but the white ones are so sweet and so king,

no pretentious at all,

not hurt not hurting,

not promising and not defeated...

I wish I could throw off

the thoughts which poison my happiness.

And yet I take a kind of pleasure

in indulging them.

Chopin

Sunday cleans away the rust

of the whole week.

Joseph Addison

Cats sleep everywhere

because life belongs to them,

through thick and thin.

Happiness. 

Simple as a glass of chocolate,

or tortuous as the heart.

Bitter. Sweet. Alive. 

Joanne Harris

Patrick Roger - click