The Sky

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."   ( Ralph Waldo Emerson)

An old potato?

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."   (John Barrymore) 

So, no regrets yet. Still dreaming! Sometimes maybe too much, that forget to blog ;) And what about the picture? It's just an old potato...  La papa canaria...

Understanding

"Look deep, deep, deep into Nature, and then you will understand everything."       (Albert Einstein)

The Darkness

It is the light, not the darkness that frightens us.  "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."    (Martin Luther King Jr.)

New Ways

There is always another way...

Zen Moment

"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. "

Salty Sunday

The Missing Ingredient?

Something is missing. I've been on holidays. I had my time. Even so, feel like can't adopt myself to the life I used to have.  Even people I used to know look different to me. Wonder, if it's a "post-vacational" syndrome  or the time for a new change??? 

"Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy."   (Henri de Lubac) 

Las Palmas

After many years living here I still feel like I've been  fooled... Just try to draw a picture in your head, when you hear somebody saying "Las Palmas".  The vision is green, lush and fresh. At least that's what all touristic brochures are showing to you, and that was the fruit of my imagination as well. I used to live in Spain before, so the islands couldn't be so different, right?  

                              But in my daily life all those promised palms looks more like that : 

  

But believe me, it's not so bad, if you learn to look around! The palms are still here. Actually they are everywhere! 

                                                 Do you have any vision about "Las Palmas"?  

Salty Sunday

Under the Palm Tree

"What I see in Nature is a magificent structure what we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."        (Albert Einstein)

The Miracle?

When I left my home-land, it was foggy. When I woke up here, it was... foggy! Don't think I ever seen that on  the island... The Heavens love me, right?

"Everywhere you go, always take the weather!"  

Just Do It!

I am not very happy. Neither I am unhappy. The adopting and adjusting takes some time. The green is changed by grey. The fresh replaced by hot. The rain is dried by the sun. The dark evenings indoors rearranged into night's softness in my terrace. But I can do it! Slowly, step by step,  day after day, thread after thread... The palms didn't grow up in a one day either...

Salty Sunday

   

The Last Green Vision...

Everything has an end. My green happiness too. What's left, only the treads of nice memories...

Spider's Web

"The artist is a recepctacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."   (Pablo Picasso)

Shadows of Autumn

"When I speek
 My lips feel cold-
 The autumn wind."
 
                (Basho)

Green Sunday

Delight

Peaceful Tree

"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense."     (American Proverb)

Summer?

The flowers still blooming, but spiders already knitting their webs...

The berries are eaten...

The air smells  more fresh...
The Happy End?

Just before the Sun...

Green Sunday

Landscaping

I am used to the clean scenery, made of the immense fields. But since those days something has changed... 

Dreamer...

  

Burning Sky

After the storm sky is still breathing out all the  beauty of tremendous power... 

Green Sunday

Rain will go Away...

Pickles. The Process

Potato Bloom

Who told you that usefull things can't be beautifull and the beautifull ones are not usefull? 

Green Sunday

The Weather

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerfull, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."      (Michael Pritchard)

 
 

Birch

"Color can do anything that black-and-white can."     ( Vincente Minnelli)

Be Happy

"If you want to be happy, be."       (Leo Tolstoy) 

4 a.m.

True or false?

Having the holidays a bit longer than a couple of weeks makes everything upside-down and inside-out... It's getting hard to see the difference between the reality and the dream. And which dream is real? The one I was dreaming about? The one I have to come back to?  The one I live today? The one that lasts longer? Where the colors are brighter?..  I guess it doesn't matter, as long as I love both of them...