Anniversary

August 23, 2020 by eflaherty

This week was my three year anniversary marking my release from the hospital. Three years ago I returned home for the first time following a stroke and three months in hospital–from stretchers to wheelchairs to walkers to crutches to home.

Then the last three years of physio, ergo and logo. If anyone reading this has friends or family with stroke, then consider this encouragement. Improvements can occur even three years after the stroke.

The sunflower to me is hope, inspiration and enthusiasm. Growth. Health. The photo is only part of the picture. My wife has planted a garden and meticulously cares for the plants with love as she has me. This photo is the glorious proof.

Sun + flowers = hope + beauty

Islands in the Sky

August 14, 2020 by eflaherty

Islands of trees in the clouds.

This is not augmented reality.

This is not CG.

This is not AI.

The clouds make these islands in their own time; and they disappear these islands in their own time.

Cloud time is not human time.

I’m sorry

July 17, 2020 by eflaherty

I can’t help it.

I just have to keep on looking closer.

And pleasure is discovered.

In the passage of time

July 12, 2020 by eflaherty

We are observers.

Before

After

And what happened during? Were we all there? Growth. Health.

More personal than…

July 5, 2020 by eflaherty

More personal than usual.

Every week, maybe a couple days each week, I take a walk amongst the agricultural valleys in the mountainous region surrounding me. And on every walk I discover something in the plants, gardens, fields and landscape that rejuvenates some part of my being.

Normally I capture a photo to share with what I hope is a caption that will captivate the guests who visit my blog. Well the last couple weeks, I have taken the photos and when I have returned home to review them, I have not felt inspired. Can’t explain it.

So today I have written this strange entry.

Now I will review my recent photos and hope to find one or more to attach to this post.

I found two.

It was the pink of this hydrangea flower that called me.

It was the thrill of discovering this clump of gentians at 2000 meters above sea level. The gentian blue is a visual magnet for my eyes.

I feel better now.

Natural Social Distancing

June 5, 2020 by eflaherty

When waiting to pick up the take-out, what is the safe social distance?

In this landscape you find dense forests on steep slopes meeting flatlands filled with agriculture.

This kestral, safely isolated near the top of a dead tree at the edge of a flat agricultural field, waits patiently for its take-out.…until I kept walking and broke into its 100 meter safe zone.

Flew away–without the take-out.