I want

These are so cool and they look like something I can make with all the Crystals I have floating about this place. I tried to copy a picture but Mr McHale does not allow that! So you have to go to the web page to see them. He has really amazing & beautiful chandeliers. But the cost is over my budget.

So here is a picture of my son and yes me, in Mr Toots Coffee House.

Full Moon Madness

Man in bar suffering the effects of Full Moon Madness.

LATTE ART

To make a Latte this wonderful you need to have the best Espresso. You need a good shot with lots of crem.
I used to go to a place called The Daily Scoop in San Francisco that made good Latte's. The guy who owned it sold it and the new owners did not have a clue how to make a good espresso drink.
I have a machine and am going to try and make one like they show in the video.I can taste how good the video is!

Lucky Us

Happy Mothers Day Queen Bee

The Queen Bee is the Mother of all Mothers. Flowers would die without bees.
I was in my yard a few weeks back. The fruit trees were all in bloom. The buds from apples, plums, apricots, and peaches were infusing the air with sweetness. And there was also a hum. I put my chair under the apricot tree and felt the powerful hum of the bees. They covered the blossoms and made their heavenly hum. It is a sound I enjoy so very much. I felt at one with these bees.
Click on the "Happy Mothers Day Queen Bee" above and you will be taken to the link of a new film called Vanishing Bees. You can watch the Trailer. Is this a crisis? Most everyone seems to think so. I would imagine the same folks who don't believe in Global Warming will also not believe in the Colony Collapse.
When I move I want to start having a few hives. I don't know how to get the bees or even how to start but I want to have some hives.
The state I live in now is one of the few with no reported Colony Collapse.
I Wish all the Bees in the world a Happy Mothers Day. They have done so much for us. They have never asked for anything in return.
The picture of the White Flower is from a trip I took to Hawaii. I love Hawaii. I love Flowers and I Love Bees!

Get some Green

What is my Love today> Green Tea. I truly love this green tea from Yamamotoyama and not just because the name is so fun to say.
It has roasted brown rice in it.
The rice takes away the bitterness. I always have my tea with cream and honey. I have heard that green tea is better for you if you take it plain. But I find most green tea to have a bitter after taste so I would add the stuff to doctor it up.
This tea is hard for me to find and I usually stock up when I do find it. It is one of the oldest tea houses in Japan. I wonder if the Japanese find it to be the Lipton tea of their country. Now I like Lipton just fine, but there are many teas that have a better, richer flavor. So maybe I am drinking crap Japanese green tea, I don't know. I only know I love it. They also sell it loose and I like that even better but that is even harder to find.
When you do put the cream and honey in the Yamamotoyama it becomes so creamy and greeny tasting that even my child who does not like much of anything that goes in the mouth, besides candy, gives a "ooo yum" to it every time.
Just like Mikey, he hates everything! If you are old enough to remember that commercial than I love you too!

Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico

She said it all. This is why I love it here.

I feel Happy Today

I feel happy today.
Even though the fridge in the house I am renting finally broke and I lost over $300 worth of food, I feel happy. In just a few short days I will be moving out of this horrible place and back into my Love Nest.
If you look closely at the picture here you will see the tiny bird. Birdy did not want her picture taken and kept hiding in the branches. I took her photo in negative mode with my camera phone and she clearly showed up.
I am Happy today even while I throw out fresh Alaskan Salmon and Fresh Organic Cream and papaya Popsicles and sprouted organic bread and sweet peas and Organic Cheddar Cheese and Vanilla Ice Cream and sprouted tortillas and Oh so many good and wonderfully Expensive foods.. I am Happy Today.
I dont know the connection between this bird and the loss of food or the Happiness.
But.......I am Happy Today.

New good stuff

I found this site today and am so excited to start using these products! The one I am most interested in are the disposable wipes. They are biodegradable and have no alcohol or Benzoikial Chloride or Triclosan. The way they form these products is with nature. The company is called CleanWell http://www.cleanwelltoday.com/

I like to keep some wipes in the car for road trips but have been very uhappy with all the chemicals in them. Some that are chemical free are not biodegradable. That means the little napkins will never be absorbed back into nature.

I have not used any products from CleanWell yet. Next time I am in Target I will look for them. They are supposed to smell great naturally as the aroma was created by a Master Natural Perfumist, Mandy Aftel. Here is a link to her place http://aftelier.com/home.html

When I get some of them and if they are indeed as great as they seem I will add them to my Good Stuff list on the left. This is going to be my list of Good Stuff that I have tried and actually use. The perfume from The Aftelier also looks mighty tempting. She uses only real scents to formulate her Perfumes. All commercial perfume is poison. Yes it really is so, stop using it Now!

Crystal Obsession

This is a video of some of the Crystals I have hanging around my place. I have a Crystal Obsession.
My dream one day, maybe with this new move, is to have one room that gets perfect light all day and fill it with Crystals. I have some very big crystals and some teeny tiny ones and they all give such unique rainbows. When I have this Crystal Room I will sit in it and meditate, have tea and just generally space out to the healing energy of the Crystal Rainbow!
So far I don't have a Crystal Chandelier but I need to get one of those. Maybe I can find an Antique one to hang in the dining room. Oh, and one in my dressing room would also be excellent.
There are many fine crystals that I have lurking about my house but the ones I enjoy the most are the ones you can hang in a window. This dream of the Crystal Room is one I have had for so many years and I think it is finally going to become a reality.
The energy in the Crystal room could be very intense. I don't know what it will feel like. The energy could also just be very soothing, I guess I will find out.