In color psychology, pink is a sign of hope. It is a positive color that inspires warm and comforting feelings. The color pink gives the feeling that everything will go well or be okay. Most people have heard of the saying “everything is rosy”. It may also indicate good health and success. (Jacob Olesen - Color-Meanings.com)
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Buddha once held up a flower to his disciples and asked each of them to say something about it. One pronounced a lecture. Another a poem. Yet another a parable. Each trying to outdo the other in depth and erudition. Mahakashyap smiled and said nothing. Only he had seen the flower. Anthony de Mello: The Song of the Bird, "Label makers" Tombe la neige Tu ne viendras pas ce soir Tombe la neige Et mon cœur s'habille de noir Ce soyeux cortège Tout en larmes blanches L'oiseau sur la branche Pleure le sortilège Tu ne viendras pas ce soir Me crie mon désespoir Mais tombe la neige Impassible manège Tombe la neige Tu ne viendras pas ce soir Tombe la neige Tout est blanc de désespoir Triste certitude Le froid et l'absence Cet odieux silence Blanche solitude Tu ne viendras pas ce soir Me crie mon désespoir Mais tombe la neige Impassible manège Hope Hope is with you when you believe The earth is not a dream but living flesh, That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie, That all things you have ever seen here Are like a garden looked at from a gate. Autumn is like an old book: Marred spines turn mean yellow, staples rust red-orange. Every stained page is stressed by a splat of color. Rough-red, like an old tavern, we become hungry birds and prepare for fall. Shape and shadow are candied citron as lanterns turn bitter yellow. Autumn is a red fox, a goblet filled with dark wine, a hot chilli pepper with smoky eyes. Pressed leaves take in the colors of seafood paella and saffron; these leaves are like death, climaxing with a smile. Autumn: Her dress is a net of mussels; dark shelled, it covers up summer’s weatherbeaten body. So pull out your boots and stand on an aged, wood floor like an evergreen. Mary Hamrick : "Autumn"  
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
The Little Prince "Fold your arms round me close and strain me so that our hearts may break and our souls go free at last. Take me to that happy place of which you told me long ago. The fields whence none return, but where great singers sing their song forever."
Joseph Bedier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult  ...as it is poetically put by Khalil Gibran in his evergreen -just like myrtle itself- book: The Prophet. A valuable and aromatic lesson of unconditional giving, whose only aim is to offer. The list of what myrtle has to give or secure is far, far longer. I am positive it must be a real burden for the plant to be sacred and responsible for immaculate love and immortality. In between these two, since time immemorial, the myrtle twigs have been supposed to assert the virginity of the bride as an essential condition to the future and rightful fertility of the newlyweds and their happy marriage. Myrtle is a symbol of fame, joy and triumph as well as peace, stability and empathy. My question is: why is it so rarely cultivated nowadays? Can we really do without myrtle and its magic? I doubt it.
 I am a little late with this post whose protagonist is Philadelphus, an unusual flowering specimen. The last flowers have just faded away although in Scotland the first buds are ready to open. Philadelphus - a perfect combination of snow white colour of gracefully shaped petals and captivating perfume lets no-one indifferent. Even those who do not usually notice flowering shrubs will definitely smell the alluring inimitable aroma. The common name of the shrub tries to find a noble comparison between orange blossoms and that of Philadelphus. In a way this trial is justified but only to some extend: the strength. But the characteristic undertones of the mock orange aroma seem to be more refined and subtle, just like architecture of the flowers which very often goes totally unnoticed. But it does deserve a closer inspection. Let not the fragrant essential oil make you blind to the design of the mock orange flowers.
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