Author Archives: Stacy

May week 3 – Butterflies and Blooms

Long are their flights and short are their lives!  Butterflies. The Butterflies and Blooms Exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park has returned.  You can get close enough to the butterflies to look directly in their eyes. … Continue reading

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May Week 2 – Happy Mothers Day with bugs and buds!

Malika Saada Saar is the Director of the Human Rights Project for Girls and a co-founder of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, an organization that advocates for dignity, justice and reform for vulnerable families.  Makers.com recorded her Mothers Day … Continue reading

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May week 1 – Orchre Stars and friends.

The Ochre Star is a wonderful subject at low tide.  You will often see them near mussel beds since it is one of their sources of food.  I prefer mine steamed, thank you!  The stars can be orange or purple … Continue reading

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April – The Language of Flowers, the Memory of Love

In the first week of April I photographed among the Cherry Trees in Golden Gate Park.  But I was interrupted before I posted them. Since then I learned from Vanessa Diffenbaug’s novel “The Language of Flowers” that the cherry blossom … Continue reading

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March Week 4 – Dressed in Purple for the Spring Show

Purple Goddess purple resurrection of She the color of her glory and compassion Iris, Lupine, Larkspur, Chinese Houses – local expressions of her presence among the shrubs, tall grasses and their own turned-over leaves.   We have moved from                 … Continue reading

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March Week 3 – Stop and SEE the flowers. You will be blessed!

Wildflowers are living metaphors of rebirth, hope, love, transformation and renewal.  Their reappearance every year is a sign that Earth herself returns to the rhythms and seasonal cycles that have been repeated for countless millennia.  As they blossom, their gospel … Continue reading

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March Week 2 – Yellow and Orange, Balm of Healing

Interior Designers tell us the beautiful warm colors of yellow and orange go well together.  You only need to look at the coastal poppies to know that.  Perhaps these colors which call spring out of the earth and us also … Continue reading

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March week 1 – Are we seeing white yet?

One-petaled white flowers filled the sanctuary of the church.  Single thick stems reaching two to three feet heavenward with arrowhead shaped leaves were jam-packed into pots, vases and aluminum foil holders.  It was as if they were standing at attention … Continue reading

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February Week 4 – Over and on the ocean … seeds and surfers

In 1849, some 2,500 people left Sydney, Australia for San Francisco.  They traveled in American clipper ships and slower moving vessels.  It was among these voyagers and their ships that the first eucalyptus seeds were transported to California. The seeds … Continue reading

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February Week 3 – Stars in the Forest and in the Sky

Walking into the redwoods on Mt. Tamalpias always provides a sensual experience: the feel of the soft-needled floor of the forest, the smell of the bay leaves, the sounds of silence interrupted by the call of the raven, the sight … Continue reading

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