Posted: under "YUMMY FOOD FOR THOUGHT".
Tags: contribution, courtesy, deed, donation, food, friendship, gift, goodness, inspiration, kindness, life, love, plant, plants, reward, seed, seeds, thought

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A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Sep 28 2010
Posted: under "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: appeciation, beauty, blossoms, celebration, colors, daffodils, experience, festival, flora, flowers, garden, gift, happiness, jewels, joy, life, meadow, mountain, nation, park, plants, season, spring, trees
The Rites of Spring
Spring has sprung! Celebrate the most beautiful places to experience the season’s stunning colors.

The Rites of Spring
The Skagit Valley, Washington state: Springtime makes this verdant valley in northwest Washington explode with color, carpeting the land with hundreds of acres of tulips, daffodils and irises. The area is best known for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, which runs throughout April and was featured in “1,000 Places to See Before You Die.” Display gardens abound throughout the valley for you to visit, but you can also enjoy the
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Apr 25 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "DID YOU KNOW", Advice & Tips.
Tags: beauty, blooms, celebration, colors, estate, experience, flowers, fragrance, garden, home, masterpiece, park, photos, plants, scent, season, shrubs, spring, trees
The Rites of Spring
Spring has sprung! Celebrate the most beautiful places to experience the season’s stunning colors.
The Rites of Spring
The Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis: The nation’s oldest botanical garden — marking its 150th anniversary this year — is a riot of color each spring, entertaining guests with lovely views of crocuses, camellias, rhododendrons, tulips, snowdrops, clematis, cyclamens, orchids and intensely fragrant sweet olive. The Linnean House conservatory is fronted by a magnolia-lined walkway that virtually showers visitors with the flowering trees’ sweet, heady scent.
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Apr 19 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: attractions, beauty, celebration, colors, country, experience, flowers, garden, joy, life, New York, paradise, plants, roses, season, spring
Spring has sprung! Celebrate the most beautiful places to experience the season’s stunning colors.

The Rites of Spring
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The New York Botanical Garden: The Big Apple hosts a South American tropical paradise each spring when The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern takes over the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Running through April 12, the event (now in its seventh year) showcases thousands of lush, brilliantly hued orchids, as well as bromeliads and
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Apr 09 2009
Posted: under Funny and Hilarious Jokes.
Tags: bike, car, check, child, classic, companion, couple, dad, destination, father, flowers, funds, funny, goodness, granny, highway, hilarious, humor, husband, jokes, journey, language, laughter, license, model, money, morning, mother, mother-in-law, neighbor, neighborhood, parents, partner, phone, plant, plants, road, smiles, sound, spouse, tour, traffic, travel, trip, vehicle, voice, wife, words
A fifteen year-old boy came home with a Porsche and his parents began
to yell and scream,
“Where did you get that car?”
He calmly told them, “I bought it today.”
“With what money?” demanded his parents.
We know what a Porsche costs..”
“Well,” said the! boy, “this one cost me fifteen dollars.”
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Mar 31 2009
Posted: under "A TASTE of the TROPICS".
Tags: black, black pepper, celery, coconut milk, codfish, direction, directions, fennel, fish, food, garlic, herb, herbs, ingredient, ingredients, Jamaica, Jamaican, link, milk, oil, olive oil, onions, pasta, pepper, plant, plants, recipe, saltfish, sauce, scallion, season, seasoning, thyme, tomato, treats, veggie, veggies, wine
‘Run Down’ Codfish Pasta
Ingredients
1 lb desalted and picked codfish
2 large white onions, chopped
1/2 lb fennel bulb, sliced
2 stalks celery, coarsely chopped
6 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes, coarsely chopped.
1 cup halved cherry tomato or orange tomatoes
1 cup coconut milk
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Mar 30 2009