Fast-motion growing fruit plant

This is an amazing video of how a tomato grows from seed to a plant! This video is like a reminder for me of how amazing and miraculous this is! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

You don't need to be perfect to be attractive

Today when I was at the gym, something interesting happened. It was the end of my workout and I was biking in the area where bicycle and treadmill equipment overlooks the weight lifting area, so I could see everyone working out there almost as if I was watching TV. And as I was watching them I've noticed to my surprise that all those weightlifting muscular men were gathered in the same area. I started wondering why and all of a sudden I saw this really attractive woman exercising there. That really made sense - these guys were trying to get closer to her and that's why there were all there!
All of a sudden this young handicap man walks in the gym. He is around 20 years old or, perhaps, even younger. His legs are not proportional to the rest of his body and also crooked. He walks with great difficulty. And although he has that handicap, he works out diligently pushing himself as I witnessed him working out there many times before. You can tell that he is very dedicated to his weightlifting training.
Next thing, I noticed these big guys looking in his direction; unconsciously, I did the same thing and what we saw was: as soon as this young man came in, this gorgeous woman left all her equipment behind to go and greet him, after which she invited him to exercise together flirting with him like a coquette. At the same time it was very apparent that she was physically attracted to him!
And immediately inside myself I felt this feeling of victory - here is this woman that could choose any man that she wanted, but she choose one that was physically handicap… isn't that great!?! All our lives we think of ourselves as not perfect - we are too fat, too slim, to this, too that..., but there's no such thing as perfection and that's the life lesson this experience gave me: you do not need to be perfect for people to love you, they love you because of who you are and it is ok to have weaknesses and flaws.

Two-month blogging anniversary

Today is two-month anniversary of me blogging. I really proved to myself from last time - I moved from 500 pageviews for the first month to over 2000 for the second one.
I am getting addicted to this thing!!!

Yummy apples

Another picture from my daily walks. It's a wild apple tree with these yummy apples getting ripe very soon!

Another golfing memory...

Reminiscence of good old days in Lake Placid, NY. Summer 2009.
I am there right now and image report is coming in later posts, but I just could not hold myself from posting this picture that brings back good memories.

With my dear friends at Merrickville

The trip to Merrickville that I talked about in my previous posts was actually to spend some time with my two really good friends. These two women were the ones who brought me back to life from my accident - they brought food for me, they held my hand when I found out about my blood clot, they comforted me when I needed someone's support so much, they were beside me all the way.
Louise and Suzanne, thank you for being in my life. You are amazing and I love you!

This was the view from the restaurant we had lunch at that day. I found it interesting that instead of having a regular sign on the side of the building, they put it across the restaurant and used an upside-down canoe to advertise themselves. 

And this was a bench where we spent a significant time of that day. There is nothing special about it, but it caught my eye as somehow to me it seemed to represent a place to share your life with your closest and dearest friends.

"Shop"-seeing in Merrickville

While in Merrickville, I couldn't pass the opportunity to do a little bit of sight-seeing/shopping.
This image below is a beautiful antique leather rocking chair.

These are wooden sculptures. I took this picture at a sculpture school and many of those are still in progress.

These are canoe paddles (which can be also used as disciplinary instrument for your misbehaving husband... heh)

This is my future house downsizing (joking!)

This is hand-made wooden furniture, which I love so much.