Choose Wisely

Attitude is a choice.

Happiness is a choice.

Optimism is a choice.

Kindness is a choice.

Giving is a choice.

Respect is a choice.

Whatever choice you make makes you.

Choose wisely.

-Roy T. Bennet

Why Not Try And See Positive Things

People deal too much with the negative,

with what is wrong.

Why not try and see positive things,

to just touch those things and make them bloom?
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Flower and Competition

"A flower does not think

of COMPETING

to other flowers next to it.

It just blooms."

-Zen Shin

Flower Power Tuesday: Patience

"Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial,
ignoring our emotions and aspirations.
It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding,
rather than ripping open a budding flower
or demanding a caterpillar hurry up
and get that chrysalis stage over with."
-Sharon Salzberg

Orange and Violets

“People deal too much with the negative,

with what is wrong.

Why not try and see positive things,

to just touch those things and make them bloom?”

Nhat Hanh

Birds of Paradise

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

Khalil Gibran

Violet Orchids

“It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

I think that's what I get from these older black women,

that every soul is to be cherished,

that every flower Is to bloom.”

Alice Walker

Violet Orchids

I took these shots in a resort where one of our colleagues' wedding was held. The colors of the flowers are very vibrant and attractive. It is very relaxing looking at these flowers blooming. 

Yellow Blooms

"Flowers always make people better,

happier, and more helpful;

they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

- Luther Burbank

Yellow Flower

"Flowers are restful to look at.

They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

- Sigmund Freud

Yellow Orchids

Yellow Euphorbia

I missed framing flowers. Not only flowers but everything. I haven't carrying my camera for a while due to busy work schedules.

These flowers were taken during our attendance in one of our colleagues wedding. It is truly relaxing  by staring on flowers.

Have you taken some blooms lately?

Blue-Violet

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful;

they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” 

- Luther Burbank

Blue and Violet

Flower Power Tuesday: White Angel in the Sky

“He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower
and I was born with a butterfly and that 
flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.” 
- Gemma Malley, The Declaration

White Angel Flower in the Sky

"That though the radiance which was once so bright
be now forever taken from my sight.
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor
in the grass, glory in the flower. 
We will grieve not, 
rather find strength in what remains behind."
- William Wordsworth

White Angel Flower in Sunset

I took this photo in different perspective. This is what I learned in reading photography books. Capture flowers in an unusual angle.

I framed the first white angel flower from under taking advantage of the blue sky as my background while in the other one, I used the setting sun as my background.

Which of the two is more dramatic?

The Lily

"Keep love in your heart. 

A life without it is like a sunless garden

when the flowers are dead."

-Oscar Wilde

The Lily

Here's one of the photos stored in my file. Matagal na dapat nakapost ito. Guess where I took this one?

A bit scary I took this shot, in cemetery last Undas.