A Plaque Says It All...

 

Sometimes, the words on a plaque are much more than decorative.

 They carry a powerful message.

One white plaque with gold letters that was purchased years ago, says it all.

It reads, "Love Is more Precious Than Gold." 

How many times in life has that precious saying come into focus?

Truly, when you think about it, having gold brings a great feeling of security and  joy.

It's always great to get gifts as well as give them.

But oh, having love is so much better.

 It enhances the precious moments of life.

It brings immense, bottomless joy to a person and fills the heart to the very brim.

Love, indeed, is far more precious than gold and gold is nothing to sneeze at.

Love, however, fills the human spirit to the max and makes life so very worth living.

It is hoped that the message of the plaque in today's blog resonates with  you and brings you the great gift of life------love.

    DO YOU BELIEVE LOVE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD?

Hunting for a Thrifty Frame

This week during a stop at an out-of-town Goodwill, the hunt was on for a frame.

A dear friend from a family we have loved for decades had given a truly gorgeous painting of a jungle scene.

So many members of the family are immensely talented artists.

Because the painting was frameless, it has never been hung but that is about to change.

There in the Goodwill thrift store, a gold frame looked to be a nearly perfect size for the jungle scene painting. 

I bought it, brought it home, cleaned it up, and removed the glass front. 

The painting's edge could barely fit the top of the frame.

With a hammer to the rescue, I got it into the frame, minus the glass.

It's not perfect but the frame looks classy and the painting remains gorgeous.

Sometimes in life, there is a happy ending to a problematic situation.

In addition to the frame for the painting, I came across a very elaborately framed African-looking print with graceful dancers. 

It joined the gold frame and will eventually  be part of a wall art gallery in the apartment.

DO YOU PREFER ART TO BE FRAMED?

The Lilacs Are Blooming

  

One of spring's best gifts to humans is lilacs.

These gorgeous flowering bushes release an intoxicating fragrance that is so powerful, a single bouquet can fill an entire room. 

 Just seeing a bush in bloom with these gifts of nature brings an overwhelming desire to stick my head in some of the fragrant blossoms and deeply inhale.

In one house we had, in the city, the neighbor across the street had beautiful lilac bushes.

She let me cut as many as wanted.

One year, when the kids were little, there were vases filled with lilacs in just about every room of a 10 room Victorian house we had rehabilitated.

I was in lilac heaven.

 

Lilacs come in several colors, too-----lavender, pink. dark purple, white, and so on.  

Lavender lilacs are my favorites.

HOW ABOUT YOU? ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH LILACS?