Flores para tu altar

for Tonantzín

Once Upon A Gaslamp

What Should I Wish For?

Still Blooming

... the little five-petaled pink flowers still bloom outside my abulla's old apartment building.

We Bloom In Shadows

... i know where i get it from.

... One Month Later

... a pink rose to kiss Scorpio gracefully goodbye ... perhaps.

Softly

... another day, another flower, another close-up. Autumn blooms are more subtle than in Spring. Delicate but every bit as passionate.

Perhaps Pink

 

"If you fall you fall/ and i'm thinking/ I wouldn't mind at all." 

But Fall, in L.A. is ... a long walk on pink petaled paths, but

Fall, in L.A. is ... without you, a heartache, funny and tearful, but

Fall, in L.A. is ... still love, and walking away can also be

But beautiful.

Clear Days

"The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days." 

~Robert Leighton

... for the < / 3 Mondays

Days of Cats and Roses

Happiness Is ...

Home Sweet Shire

... i walk pass this front porch garden on the way to the bus stop on San Fernando Road. This door doesn't face the street, it's alongside the driveway. With so much green foliage from all kinds of plants and flowers, it's easy to miss the house. I imagine walking through this door and Bilbo Baggins will be there to greet me.

Let Me Grow

SOLitude

San Fernando Road: Spring (Part 1)

... these are the flowery days. even at bus stops. (even to Burbank.) been reacquainted with an old friend, the 94, the first line i take into Burbank for work. At Olive and San Fernando, a new friend, the 155: media city route. north or south, the 94 never feels like the same ride. and yet, no matter where i point and shoot along the Road, i can't help imagine Rod Serling will soon pop up in the frame ... "Your next stop, The Twilight Zone."

Just Passing Through

Every time i get off the Gold Line at Mission Station i enjoy the serenity of a walk through Barristers Nursery & Garden Center. (Although on this day a caretaker did not appreciate me snapping pictures with my phone. But on a day like this, i couldn't help myself. Next time i'll show them flowery pix i have saved on my BlackBerry, mention this blog, recite "flower and song", ... ) 

If only the knew ...

Where Flowers Go

"From within the heavens they come
the beautiful flowers, the beautiful songs.
Our longing spoils them,
our expression makes them lose their fragrance."
~Ayocuan of Tecamachalco

Flowers Ahead

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Still We Sing

Happy Birthday Abulla!

My grandmother,
Ana Mercedes Portillo
born this day, 1926.
Berlín, Usulután, El Salvador

Felíz día de las Madres
... always

Xochitl: West and East

Flor

Flower

May flowers along California Avenue. The white one is a large flower of a very tall plant. Its petals flapped in the breeze like a parachute (I almost gave up trying to get a shot). It seemed almost otherworldly, as i walked toward the bus stop along W. California Ave. to San Fernando Rd. The red one is a small kind of rose. I was struck by its brightness, being the lone blossoming flower next to a handful of buds, on the way home from Trader Joe's along E. California Ave. 

Sky Joy Flight

the fruit of your sky

tastes sweet with resilient joy

fierce flowery flight

Pomegranate Paws

petals, little shields

protecting the paths we prowl

wield beauty with song