Hamilton gardens

On our North Island trip we didn't spend a lot of time in Hamilton but what we saw was gorgeous : The Hamilton gardens

The light and the dark creates the complete cycle

A roman pot tucked in a corner

 Italien renaissance garden. Yeh my favourite

Indian Char Bagh Garden is inspired by the Tai Mahal garden and the palace by the Lal Mahal.

American modernist garden - ah there is a gap in my chair

A look through the bamboo of the Chinese Scholars Garden

  A Maori food storage house in Te Parapara Garden

A bumble bee enjoys the sun sunny flower

Take a seat mate. Complete with cellphone, radio, cup and plate.

The Chinoiserie Pavilion in the Perfume Garden

The ancient wisdoms

Old Welsh Prose:

The Ancient Wisdoms

He who knows the ways of beasts and birds.

Who can distinguish them by song and cry,

Who knows the bright quicksilver life in streams,

The courses that the stars take through the sky,

May never have laid hands to books,

Yet he is sharing wisdom with infinity...

He who works with sensitive deft hands

At any woodcraft, will absorb the rain,

The sunlight and the starlight and the dew

That entered in the making of its grain;

He should grow tall and straight and clean and good

Who daily breathes the essences of wood.

He who finds companionship in rocks,

And comfort in the touch of vine and leaf,

Who climbs a hill for joy, and shouts a song,

Who loves the feel of wind, will know no grief;

No loneliness that ever grows too great;

For he will never be desolate...

He shares, who is companioned long with these,

All ancient wisdoms and philosophies.

Dreams

Dreams
By marja

Flakes of thoughts flutter
dwelling in a place of dreams
A place where rainbows stretch
towards the horizon,
twisting colours in a beam

 Dreams are wrapped in a bubble
softly craddling in the air
full of inspiration, imagination
creating feelings of elation
of a spirit roaming free
 
As life is young, nourish
don't let the bubble burst
let it flourish in a tapistry
on the road to destiny
as beauty will unfold
as it as meant to be

Quote of the week