The pine trees that lined the front drive way decided collectively to grow droopy middle branches over the past few weeks.

Today droopy branches were trimmed away from the trees and became pine tree clippings on the ground.

A few lucky ones ended up in this red tin jar on my night stand.

I took a shot of it and were surprised that the dreamy cloud wall color came through better in a photo than in real life.

Hongfei didn’t like my photo so he took another one.

OK! better lightening, better details and maybe also better proportion.

But what happened to lavender, the lamb?

圣诞节前和水仙郁金香一起种下了好几种花种。
之后就忘记哪里种的什么了。
水仙郁金香都开过了。
这几棵只有茎，一直在往细高里长。
茎也很普通。曾经被怀疑过是葱或者水仙。
直到花苞里冒出深紫色，才想起来是Iris啊！！

看它韭菜一样的叶子，真想不到顶头能开出这么神奇的花。

Iris的品种非常多。模样一个比一个出奇，颜色一个比一个鲜亮。 而且Iris好养。

世上少有的又神奇又平易近人的花啊。

花开并蒂有没有！！！！

前一批阳光下的开完了

下一批树荫底下的，又开始吐芽了。

最爱含苞待放的时候，能感受到向外扩展的力量有没有！！！

At my very first kundalini practice, the instructor played this song during cool down.
She played it twice, then invited us to sing along with her.

It was so beautiful. I cried.

May the long time sun shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light that’s within you
Guide your way on

Here is a quote from a youTube comment:
”
May the long time sun shine” came into the tradition of Kundalini Yoga, because band members of the “Incredible String Band” attended a lecture with Yogi Bhajan in London and donated this song to him during a talk they had with him afterwards.
The text “May The Long Time Sun…” was not written by the “Incredible String Band”, but was used originally in Ireland in the middle ages as a blessing for people, who started a long journey.
”