{"id":355,"date":"2012-03-12T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2013-04-24T23:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T23:54:38","slug":"march-week-1-pride-of-california-flower-of-our-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"March Week 1 – Pride of California, flower of our state"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Poppy\"<\/a>

Stamen and Petal – Poppy<\/p><\/div>\n

Interior Designers tell us the beautiful warm colors of yellow and orange go well together.\u00c2\u00a0 You only need to look at the coastal poppies to know that.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps these colors which call spring out of the earth and us also bring their own balm of healing.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Yellow and orange seem to have a special nature that signals both comfort and vibrant emotions.<\/p>\n

It is perhaps the power of these colors that speaks to my heart most on this day, one year to the date, of the earth quake and tsunami in Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 Here this is still much needed restoration, rebuilding and rebirthing.\u00c2\u00a0 May the power of the orange and yellow be a symbol of our solidarity with those still mourning and remembering their lost loved ones, devastated properties and destroyed livelihoods. So I offer these image of the coastal poppies and their own magical properties to the memory of those 20,000 lost last year, swept into the sea.<\/p>\n

Although you can find some poppies blooming somewhere all year long in California, this time of year in the Bay Area you begin to see them more plentiful coast side and urban street side.\u00c2\u00a0 They even have their own song.<\/p>\n

California Poppy Song<\/p>\n