Tag Archive: beauty

Featured Flowers: Water Lilies

Water Lily Revered for centuries as a symbol of peace and beauty, the water lily resembles a lotus in its shape and harmoniously spreading petals which seem to open like the sun.  Its… Continue reading →

Koi Ponds

Koi Ponds Several of the places I’ve lived, including San Francisco, have had Japanese tea gardens, and I have always found a kind of unrushed deliberateness in them.  Everything is precise and orderly,… Continue reading →

Featured Flower: Lupin

Lupines are native to California (among other places) and grace our hills and meadows with a burst of blue-purple. Often called bluebonnets, or vetch, they have pea-pods, a beautiful palmate or rounded, star-shaped,… Continue reading →