My Super Moon

These days, more correctly  nights, everybody was talking about the Moon being closest  to the Earth than any time in the past two decades... I wasn't paying enough attention to that. In the last few nights I was paying attention to the fiesta going around. I guess I had a bit too much  of it, because this morning I saw the Supermoon  falling down! Yes, it DID fall! Straight into my plate! Big and round. Better if I will  hide it ... Cover it with some honey or marmalade... Super!  :)

 

Salty Sunday

Bird Watching

Him and her...  Rustling feathers...  Impressive mating dance...  Tuneful twitter... The birds!  We are just like them when it comes to party... But what distinguishes a bird from a human?  The only difference I see  is being the early morning bird or other kind,  The Night Bird...

For Japan With Love

This Friday, March 18th, my blog will be silent in horor and respect for what has happened in 

Japan. If you're a blogger, join us!  

This Friday, March 18th, my blog will be silent in horor and respect for what has happened in 

Japan. If you're a blogger, join us!   

Carnival

The good thing about living on small island is that when it comes to celebration, you feel like at never ending party. Just moving around, going from place to place, folowing the FIESTA. So tomorrow the crazyness starts in my town. Brush up your feathers, and don't be surprised if I will be lost for a few days :)  AZUCARRR!!!

The Dragon

It's past midnight. I hear something in the terrace, behind the bedroom's window. Could it be that The Dragon came back??? We had this "pet" some time ago. Seeing him for the first time was scary and exciting, but curiosity won. So fruits and vegetables been served, just to conquer the Dragon's heart... And we been payed back with some photo session :)

A New Beginning

How hopefull and joyfull is watching the new life comming out from the seeds! Very possible that this one will not survive the hot wind from Sahara or litlle nasty bugs... But isn't wonderfull even for a short while to let your hopes grow? Just for a moment to be touched by the mystery of Nature...



Salty Sunday

    

Price of the Water

Most of the things we take for granted. Like water. I wasn't thinking about  the price of opening the water tap before I moved to Canary islands. But when you need to pay for every single glass it changes the  mind.  Sitting in front of cacti is not exactly like sitting  on the grass. Then using thousands of liters for washing the street after the Carnival's mess sounds like a biggest crime.  Water means life...but ONLY when it comes in  an exact ammount!  If not,  it  brings death... We can't live without it, we can't live with too much of it... We take a life for granted until we have to pay the real price of the WATER... 

 

La Dolce Vita

"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."                 (Paulo Coelho) 

  
  

Absolute Spring

  

  

Write a Letter...

When this Christmas I didn't get any written letters I realised something got very different. I was not forgotten as you might think.  Printed out "anual reports" that serves as Christmas greetings for everyone, phone calls, e-mails, sms, tags on facebook... But not a single hand-written note! What happened to us that instead of smooth waving with a pen on the paper we prefear hectic tremor of fingers over the keys and buttons? Is it really a lack of the time? The fear  that somebody still could read  our REAL moods from handwriting? I am wondering...

And then I'm recieving a LETTER.  The real perfectly  unperfect handwriting. The only thing is I can't re-read it. Over and over again. To open it and to fold it back, until it will look like a holey  fishing net... But by then I would  have learned  it by memory... 

 

Orange

 "Orange is the happiest color."  (Frank Sinatra)      There are very strong contraversal opinions about it. Loving it or hating it. If it's a greenery killer in Autumn, perhaps not my favorite either, even some days I might love the orange melancholy... But as a dress code for Spring's flowering festival - totally accepted! Vital, energising and simply HAPPY!

 

One hour less

"...una hora menos en Canarias..." - the radio keeps reminding me. Oh, really? Do we have 23 hours instead of 24? - No. Do we have less working hours? - Doubt about it. Do we have to sleep less and wake up earlier? - Well, maybe... Because been up too long last night, relaxing in an own way...  It feels strange  when radio from busy rushing Madrid tells to everybody that Canaries still sleeping... But maybe they are wrong. Those in Madrid don't know anything about the morning coffee here... One hour more of  a good life...

  

Salty Sunday

  

 

Vice Versa

The winter means "good". It's not too hot, it rains now and then. The earth becomes fruitful. The nature dress up green. The air is clean and clear. The sky is bright blue. The life is better in the winter!  If you think my thoughts are inside out, maybe  you are upside down. The Earth is round :)

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Witchcraft

Haaa ha ha haah! Be afraid of me today!!! I am practicing the witchcraft! Why? To change the weather! To keep some clouds in the sky! To get some glorious rain ! So, stay out of my way!!! "Hot sun, hot sun, go away! Rain clouds, rain clouds here to stay!.. Hot sun, hot sun, go away! Dark clouds, dark clouds here to stay!.. Some clouds? Any clouds here to stay?.."  

     


     

La Dolce Vita

"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."    ( Alice May Brock )

 

Soul of Things

  Do you remember when you was a child and everything around you was alive? Things could talk, move, have an own personal life, the invisible to the grownups, though... We are adults now, but things still speak to us. They tell us stories, full of memories, smells, touches, dreams... The soul of things haven't changed. We changed our believes. Even so, it still exists; the secret life of things...

 



Imported Spring

   I still can't get used to the absence of the seasons here... It's a summer all year around : Scandinavian summer,  Mediterranean summer,  subtropical summer, ... The  infinite sunshine,  endless blue, timeless cacti... Where is that awaited spring? That bouncing heart's dance, while watching the shy stretch of the first puny leave? The smile on your face painted by the first song of  returned home bird?  I need the spring I grew up with, so I go to the place where it's possible to buy it...  The Spring , imported from Europe...

 

Salty Sunday

 

 

My Big Boy

Today is my baby-boy's birthday!  He turns 8, so he  is not so little anymore... It seems that at the moment we become parents the time stops. It's very hard to understand how did the children became big so fast, because it looks  like everything happened only yesterday, or maximum a few months ago... And here we go, instead of cute helpless baby there is a nice independent boy... Happy Birthday, my Son!  

 



A Happy Day

There is one very special day every week. One of those when  my heart is singing from a pleasant view. But I have to hush it a little, so I could enjoy the froufrou and whispers of these coquettish ladies... Today is a FLOWER WATCHING DAY :)  I wish you a nice day too! 

                             

La Paloma

"Cucurrucucú paloma, cucurrucucú no llores.

Las piedras jamás, paloma ¿que van a saber de amores?"

A dove, symbol of peace and love is nothing more than a white pigeon... Then why do we hate colorful pigeons so much, calling them "winged rats"? Are they really so dirty? - No more than other birds! I think that's an invention of city, contaminated by humans... Yes, pigeons do go around and eat everything what PEOPLE left... Who is more dirty then?  Such a shame... 

 

Salty Sunday

   

 

Weekend's visitor

Cat said : "I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walk by himself and wish to come into your cave".     (R.Kipling)    
      
                

   


    

La Dolce Vita

I know, I know, it's far too much... But after the house turned into a hospital, with only one "healthy" person (me?), I can forgive myself  having a piece of this... hmm... medicine? 

 


                                                         

Princess and the Peas

...One day the Princess woke up and felt : "Green!"  That was the magical key to her mighty powers, as lately they've been fading. Unfortunatelly her faithfull Prince was far away in an unknown  mysterious land fighting  the dragons. So she  had to travell alone to the farthest places  in a search of a Magical Power of Life. And when at last the Princess found the Green, she had to pay almost a half of  her kingdom to get it...

 What's the end of the story? - The Princess slept happilly thereafter. On a ONE mattress...  

 

Stone's heart

  

 

                                           

Salty Sunday

 

Aviary

- Look! - the black swan next to me gracefully turns its  head towards waddling queue.
- Lets go to the restaurant!
- Restaurant! Restaurant!.. - cackles the flock.
- Which one? To the right or to the left?
- To the right!  Right!  Right.  Right...
- Nice day!  Food here is good!  Good food.  Food.  Good...
- They look like geese! - happily chirps my little sparrow surprised.
- Shut up your beak! - I croak like a crown, being unable to understand why suddenly I feel like a  peacock???

 

Perfect

Blue blue sky. Green green leaves. Nice!.. Or... Boring?!.  The second option is closer to me :)  I miss drama, I need surprises, I love changes! Not in my life - I have plenty of them. In the sky!.. The nature of Nature is to change, naturally. That's why you, covered by snow or wet from the rain dream to come here, to this perfect paradise, to have a CHANGE. But what about me?..  Perfect blue is boring. Unless it has an invisible sour-sweet smell of last rain on the ground, steaming to the air... I close my eyes, feel up my lungs with this clean crystal perfection and remember what I used to say to myself at this time of the year- the spring is coming... Perfect!

 

Rain-wash

"Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, woman, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know
You will know..."
                               ("Dreams" - Fleetwood Mac)

 

Zen moment

the freezing blue
my dancing thoughts
a quiet stone

 

The Stranger

What a shell is doing high in the mountains between the rocks? Being a foreign body to the place, and yet it IS there... So am I. I am where I am, I do what I do...

"I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing and I had done another. And so? "        ( Albert Camus )

Salty Sunday

Luck :)

Superstitions and fairy tales say that animals bring good luck to you. Well, then I must be absolutely fortunate one!.. The luck is following me everywhere - the hedgehogs under my bed, lizards size of the cat in the terrace and geckos in the bathroom...  No, I am not complaining,  just wanted to wish a GOOD LUCK to all of you!  :)

La Dolce Vita

"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations." I was convinced.  Not always you need to go to the fancy restaurant to be served such a masterpiece... Anything good  can be waiting just behind the corner, in the middle of  the road to something expected...

 



Green grass

The grass is always greener on the other side... Especially if you don't have it at all, literally...  And now we been visited by a very seldom guest - the  RAIN!  So, not only my litlle piece of  backyard, but the entire island  is green!  Yet, please, don't get green with envy that at last I am on the right side of the fence...

It's cold

Damn right, it's cold here! Sounds very strange from the  island of entire summer, but I can't help it... I am really freezing  in the house without a heating, listening to the wind whistling through the windows and doors. Now and then I have to jump out to the sun to warm up... You might be laughing now, but immagine that where you live the temperature drops down about 20 degrees ... Yeah, that makes difference, isn't?   So on the rainy evening the only salvation is to snuggle up to the feathers of the precious One...