by Bela Johnson | Apr 30, 2019 | musings, nature, Puget Sound, Uncategorized
Wavelets snap and turn in the sunlight, deceiving eyes into believing there are creatures emerging from the depths; Strands of kelp curve and twist like the wake of a ship, glinting just enough to hint at sea otters frolicking in welcome brilliance; Markers the novice...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 27, 2019 | nature, Puget Sound, self awareness, Uncategorized
I am disinclined to travel these days, preferring to remain in the half-acre gardens I have created with my own hands these past five years. Yet on the spur of the moment, I agreed to a three-week house and pet sitting gig for dear friend in one of my favorite places...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 22, 2019 | climate change, Earth Day, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
There are snapshots in time, places where one feels the eyes scratching over the surface of some offensive scene, cymbals clashing inappropriately during a tender interlude, spell dissolved in the cacophony, never to return again free of that memory; Then there are...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 9, 2019 | compassion, creativity, gardening, healing, nature, Uncategorized
The crescent mark left by a garden knife is slowly mending, unresisting as I cleave yet another lifted layer of my own skin from its center until a proper feeling of softness returns to adjacent banks of that once-jagged riverbed; Like one’s own feelings...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 4, 2019 | gardening, Hawaii, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
There is green, and then there is the delicate curled chartreuse ribs of a fern frond as sunlight trips fantastic through the rhythm and hum of a late afternoon, busiest time of day for folding in fragments of lost time in preparation for the long shadows of impending...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 27, 2019 | Hawaii, inspiration, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
When the silver spool of dawn unravels in languorous wisps, as clouds unfurl low and wide in the overhead sky, my gaze sweeps broadly and what I behold is the artist’s palette come to life, a masterpiece with every dawning and dusky day while the earth spins...
