Thinking Blossoms

Just letting you know I'm away until mid November in Uganda and Kenya. It's the first time I've set foot in sub-Saharan Africa since I left South Africa aged 4. I'll be there with my daughter. We're going to a big African Wedding, running some workshops and doing some exploring. I'll take my camera but not my laptop, so I'll post here again on my return. I'm still busy thinking about how this blog, my site and other blog/site ideas fit with how my business is developing. Perhaps being in such a different place will bring helpful new perspectives.

Meanwhile there's an American election and big financial changes in the world. Good news? Bad news? Who can say? We certainly each have to find our way forward sensibly and at the same time being cheerful. Why cheerful - because it's a choice we can make whatever is going on in life isn't it?  Not convinced? Read my chapter 'How Good Can You Stand It?' 'in Good Question!'    

It's going to be quite something being with people in Africa who get through life with far less material resources than we do at the most pinched of times. I'm sure they will be teaching me a thing or two.

My blogging self will be back toards the end of November.

:-) Judy

ps, if you wish to get in touch, please email me on [email protected] and I'll ick them up when I can.

Finding out by seeing

As with my previous post, here I've started with a photo and wondered what I wanted to find out in it.

Why pick a picture of some Swiss chard growing in a flower bed in a small French town rather than some of the other wonderful photos of nature that I have lined up ready to go?

Obviously, to me, there's the interesting juxtaposition of flowers and vegetable so that I see a contrast. It's almost like a joke in which the funny bit is the unexpected connection between one thing and another.

Is that what the designer/gardener had in mind? Is it a fashion? It might be. I saw globe artichokes in flower arrangements in central Paris too - but they do have beautiful purple flowers and this chard doesn't have any unless not eaten and left to flower for seed.

It's got a beautiful touch of red along the stalk and leaf veins. It's also a great shape mixed in with the contrasting shapes of the other foliage. There's a few reddish pink flowers too that go well with the red in the chard.

In fact, if one looks at it without the distinctions of 'fruit and vegetable' it's just nice display of mixed foliage and flowers.

Anything at all to do with business and work?