BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

"Beauty Full"

You have seen it

Beauty

YOU are Beauty full

full of beauty

Tap into yourself

share yourself

think Beauty

be Beauty Full! by Cro

I say Beauty Full! all the time so this is my contribution to Poetry Thursday!Hope you are having a Beauty Full day!

Yesterday was one of those kind of Dream days! It was sublime! So filled with beauty! Deer in the back yard, blue jay flying(I seeeeeeeee blue jays every day), a 3 day old sweet baby boy(I happened to know the father, Damon graduated high school with him!) going home from the hospital, my sweet Dr. Hess, another sweet baby's pics I got in the mail, staring up to the dim lights on the ceiling as I got my EKG(everything's fine, just high blood pressure, UG!)Thanking God I was just here on a visit thinking they should have some soft music in there! coming home, seeeeeing my family, watching "So You Think You Can Dance" Jessica and Jaymz dancing beautifully to "Let Go" by Frou Frou, switching the channel to seeeeeeeeeeeeeee an amazing little eleven year old girl, Bianca Ryan belting out the song, "And I tell you I'm not going" She gave me many chills!!!! She should win it!!! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder though soooo you may have a different opinion on who is to win! and I saw many beauty full sights and ending up the day, in the weeeeee hours thanks to a commenter on my Blog, Haider(thank YOU!), I went to Sara Shamma's web site. She is full of beauty as you can seeeeeeee for yourself! http://www.sarashamma.com/ ps. I think all my commenters are beauty full!!!! Yes!!!! lol

HAPPY MEMORIES

" Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out." by Libbie Fudim*******************I have 5 top 5 memories as I remember them as I type this! #1*****June 1, the glorious day I met my husband*****#2******Our Wedding Day!*****#3*****Giving birth to my son Damon****#4*****Giving birth to my daughter, Gina*****#5******Giving birth to my son, Mario***** My collage is on sale at eBay, click onto my auctions on my side bar! and by the way, what's One or two of your happy memories?????????

THIS POP ART HAS BEEN GROOVY!!!

As YOU can seeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I have tons of Fun on these self portrait challenges! This is the last of the POP in June! It's almost time for POP! BANG! BOOM! Fireworks for the 4th of July!!! Nicole Kidman and Marcia Cross INSPIRED my pics!

RAIN

illustration Friday =RAIN**** one of my favorites, I LOVE rain and that's why we put tin on top of my back porch roof! mmmmmmmmm zzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZ, soooooo cozy, I have always loved rain! This is one of my favorite collages I did last year and the message on it is great advice too! *****Her stamp hat reads "THIS IS FOR THE ONES YOU LOVE" continuing with the message on the bosom of her dress, "what makes LOVE last?" LOVE YOUR LIFE You cannot know love until you have love for yourself and for Poetry Thursday *********** Love LOVE and hate Hate ***Cro *** ps. I'll have a few prints of this collage later in my CroStuff on the sidebar of this Blog!

Red, White, and B L U E

hOW many have to die??? before we bring our troops home? They have found Pfc Kristian Menchaca and Pfc Thomas L. Tucker, brutally killed. I am very SAD today and ANGRY! Why WAR? I am very lucky, my son has done his time and has returned home safe. He was in Korea in 2001, 9/11.................I ask what can I do??? I run to my Bible and pray for peace. Pray for all our men and women fighting for PEACE

OOOOOOoooOOOO Look through my kitchen curtain!

"sweet visitors" dear deer, come back again soon, you bring me such good cheer! I often seeeeeeeeeeee you by the light of the moon! ***** That's when they come back and eat off the heads of my blooming tiger lillies!(creek bank lillies)
Can you seeeeeeeeeeeee them??? I hurried to take a pic before they got skittish and ran off!!! A mama and her sweet babe! Then, I looked again and she had TWINS!!!!! Can you zoom in and seeeeeee the one in the bushes??? lol Phew! I couldn't believe it! Yesterday though, I saw a mama and babe but not two babes, I'm hoping this was an entirely different deer than the Mama I saw with twins the other day!!!

KARMA! IT UP, in other words, HAPPY WEEK_END!!!

This is for Illustration Friday too cause Look at this gal DANCE! Happy Week-end!!! I've got to get busy and plant some flowers! hopefully this week-end and Happy Father's Day!!! Alleluia! My father is still doing pretty well, at least he is home!!! Mom says he even loves to SHOP now! lol Phew, such a funny, funny, funny pair!!! I'll be going out to the farm to seeeeeeee them Sunday! KARMA! IT UP my lil collage says and I mean Good Karma!!! Have yourselves a HAPPY WEEK-END!!! xoxooooxoxox Ps. does anyone know how to reduce pics, I need thumbnails for Illustration Friday! & I'd love to know how to change my profile pic for my Blog! If anyone has the time to explain, i would appreciate your know-how! thanks!

"V I S I O N S" Poetry Thursday

One afternoon

I knew I was going to die

I was not ready

I questioned in my mind,

so soon?????

and then I looked

and he was there sitting

I thought, "It must be God!"

The Ancient One

No-one has seen his face soooooo

Who was he?

pondering

thinking

He wore a brilliant white feathered headdress

lots of beautiful white feathers adorned him

Him thinking

Me thinking

TRANCE

sublime thoughts danced in my heart

and brought me back to LIFE!

healed, still ALIVE!

Was it all a dream or

Was it Real?

I was sooo GLAD to be Alive

to breathe

Was He a Vision?

or

Was I his Vision?

I think of him often

I don't miss him

Have You seen him?

Cro

This is the first time I have ever tried painting this occurence or talked about it to anyone for fear I would be taken away!

was it a visiting angel or a deadly visitor

or

YEEEEEEEEEE****HAWWWWWWWW

Phew! What a wonderful 2 1/2 hours I had last night! Thanks! Natalie! She is my son Damon's girlfriend and she works for the radio station that sponsored this! The last concert I went to at Westchester Village was Hot Apple Pie! lol I am a country girl! I was raised on a farm and my dad played the fiddle, banjo, ukulele, drums but what I LOVE is the fiddle! Boy, oh boy, could this youngun' play his fiddle!!! I thought he was gonna burn it up!!! LOL Emerson Drive really ROCKED last night!!!Gina and I sat right by the speakers though but it was up front but our ears are still ringggGGGgggGGGGinggGGGGG!!! That's not good! I LOVE all kinds of music!!! Right now I'm listening to Rihanna's "A Girl Like Me" OOOOOOooooOOOO Thank God for MUSIC and the sweet people that bring it!!!!

To ERR IS HUMAN but to FORGIVE is DIVINE

Who's quote is that??!!! I forget! Instead of going to bed the other night I decided to paint! here's some other sweet sayings****If you would never cease to pray, never cease to long for it. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer........St. Augustine*****The kindest and the happiest pair...Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.......William Cowper******If you find yourself growing angry at someone, pray for him-anger cannot live an an atmosphere of prayer*********and here is another one! It is not how troubled the sea is that determines the course of your life; it is who the Pilot is..........The Lord will either calm your storm or allow it to rage while HE calms you ...........If God is for us, who can be against us??????? Romans 8:31 ****Hope YOU are having a sweet day! xoxoxooxoxoox

SPC GLAD TO BE ALIVE! In LOVE more than 9 1/2 weeks! LOL

hOPE I don't offend my readers but this is ART! POP art! and I AM GLAD to BE ALIVE! AND IN LOVE!!! Yeah, remember the HOT movie" 9 1/2 weeks" with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke??!!! Go get some ICE CUBES!!! LOl ****it will be 1500 some weeks for me and my Hubby in December! Is that right? My math might be all wacked!
A L L E L U I A!!!!

to move or not to move, Saturday and Sunday visitors

I SURE would miss these kind of sights! Those on the far right are groundhogs! LOL Mama and her 3 little ones have grown, I love it when they sit up and look around! I see these critters just about every day!
Mmmmmmmm, it's soft raining outside right now, it's making me soooooooooooo sleepy! Sweet Dreams! xo zzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ps. I added some things to Crostuff! It's on my sidebar! If you ever see a collage on here and would like it as a print just let me know!

Adopt a PATCHOULI PUP

Happy Saturday EVERYONE!!!
check on eBay for this lil fella
(for sale on eBay is on my sidebar, just click! thanks!)

PHEW! I'm just as ORNERY as SHE is!!! LOL

life imitating Art
I'm gonna put this on here and seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee if anyone can figure out what I'm doing! here's a hint******** Have you gone to someone's Blog and seeeeeeee their ART and you wonder********Are they talking to me???!!! Could this be me?????!!!! LOL I love this gal's ART and HOPE this gives her a chuckle!!! Hope someone figures this out!!! I had soooo much FUN, i slobbered!!!! Can you believe it??? Phew! I think I'm going BANANAS sometimes! LOL

ALWAYS LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE***POETRY tHURSDAY

i have walkers up here on my hill and with my window open, here is some little snippets of conversation I did hear and the doggie one just happened today!Phew! this pic is Bright! LOL and I had to wear my Grandma Virgie's hat since we're talking about Grandmas and I already wore Grandpa Paul's (HER Hubby) in the SPC! fair is fair! (my son said it looked like a monkey upon my head!)

"Always Look On The BRIGHT Side"

Grandma called an Indian Meal worm Moth
her pet
I got married May 6
then Grandma had them all over her kitchen!
the next time I visited her...
this dog CAN'T be afraid of
THAT DOG!
she won't go any farther
JUST TURN AROUND!
our walk has been downsized!
What girl?????
oh, that one
She always has a smile
I smiled too
when I heard
about Grandma and her kitchen
FULL of Pets (pests)
and that person
has been married a whole month!
already
and that dog
that beautiful red Irish Setter
hopefully she's having
sweet dreams
dreaming
of
kicking that little, tiny
YIPPY YAPPY minature Doberman's arse!!!!!!
CRO

SPC DANG DUSTY DERBY! LOL

WELL, ANDY WARHOL dressed up as women, I thought I would put on my Grandpa Paul's Derby! Man, it was dusty! LOL***pOP photo art

PARADISE

cURRENTLY ON EBAY*****A DONATION WILL BE MADE TO Bernie Berlin, check her Blog out on my sidebar and also, click onto my eBay sales name, rainwindmoon, you might have to click twice! It's also on my side bar! Why is my sidebar down there? Does anyone know why or what I did now for it to be clear down there??? Thanks!!!

Get Back In The Light

This collage is going to eBay too Sunday sometime, afternoon or evening!
I've got to fight to get back in the Light! I HATE, DETEST DEPRESSION! I have it thick in my family! soooooooooo I have a constant battle, most days I think we are inbetween, happiness and sadness! Everyone! Sometimes I think I watch too much CNN! but.............. those terrorists are out there! Now, they have arrested how many in Canada, how many more are there ready to terrorize!!! All the killings and kidnappings and perverts! UG! I've got to get back in the light soooo I can keep praying for goodness and peace!!!! Like a good thing I heard about this week-end is The Heart Gallery where they are taking pictures of foster children and putting their pictures up in a gallery..........mostly older children waiting for someone to seeeeeeeeeeeeeee their picture and fall in love with them! and to adopt them! Sweet! there is sweetness out there!!! Sweet Dreams! xoxooox

COOL girls wear hats!

going to eBay Sunday sometime!

YOWWWWWWWWZZZZZZAAAAAAAAA!!!

how is everybody today!!!!????? Yowwwwwwwzzzzzzzaaaa!!! I still can not believe it is JUNE 1st!!!
I've got to get busy planting my Cosmos or is it too late??? I don't think so, they have June, July, August, September to grow!!!
GUESSSSSSS what???? Today is the DAY i MET my PRINCE!!! That's what he looked like to me that day and our wedding day! June 1st, 33 years ago, it was a Friday night, my girlfriend and I decided to go to this Club called "The Top of the Tree" I've told the story before on here when I posted a pic of my crown( hair braided and pinned up) I used to wear back in the day! I was wearing a gypsy scarf that night and he asked me why I was wearing it sooooooooo I went into the bathroom after we had finished our dance, took the scarf off and the electric went off!!!! LOL Woooooo HoOOOOoO!!!!
6 months later I was Mrs. Jerry Oliverio!!!!
The next year, 1974, June 1st, they released me from the hospital from having a miscarriage. May 30, 1974, I lost my first dear sweet child, who I always thought was a girl but the Dr. said it was too soon to tell, but I was 3 months! What else didn't he tell me? That's why every May 30th and in November when he or she should have been born I get melancholy! Angels, Angels, Angels everywhere!!!
This May 30, I was melancholy and played Nicolette Larson's 1980 cassette, "Radioland" This sweet artist, what a songbird!!! died December, 1997 from complications of a cerebral edema! She was only 45 years old! One of the songs she sings on this cassette is "Gone Too Long" Yes, both have been gone too long but I think of them as angels, ANGELS UP THERE!!! Have you heard any of her songs? One of her more famous songs was Neil Young's "Lotta Love" and her last album was a baby's album, "Sleep Baby Sleep"
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing... An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.
John Keats