The morning after - in bits and pieces...

And I had a dream..
almost like the cartoon at right :-)!  Just a dream alas!

Maybe it is the weather?
The reports about the huge flooding this time right here at home, so to speak,  in the Midwest!

 Arcimboldo: The Water

The reports about those tornado related deaths and hard to imagine damages?
The fires which turns to ashes homes and churches, farmland and forests?

Arcimboldo: The Fire

AND THE wedding is over.

In case you wondered I did NOT get up at 3 AM to witness..there's enough on the news, the papers, the internet.  Although I must admit some of those hats did catch me unawares - the less said the better!

  Well, was it inspired by a certain cover?...

On the opera front, I hear/read

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/winnie-the-opera-on-home-turf-and-ready-for-her-close-up/article1995933/

that Winnie Mandela has become an Opera - beatifying her!

This product of Canadians, premiered in South Africa to, if we can believe the write-ups, standing ovations!

And here is another take on it!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/theatre/shareTweet/article2003710/

You know something?

I do like to be entertained and distracted when attending a performance!

Not hit over the head with a sledgehammer.

Life does that too many times already!

Just read the news worldwide, natural disasters, man made disasters, political disasters, fashion disasters (lol). You name it!

 Sledgehammer days seem here to stay!

Water...

the source of all life!

And of leisurely fun, too!
Bonita Springs Resort, FL.

Having lived for JUST a couple of hours without it, made me truly realize how much we depend on it and how much (maybe) we appreciate having it gush or trickle as the case may be, by simply turning a knob or lever. And it comes forth clear and clean. At least, we think so since we can't see the microscopic floating things:-)! Yes, we are spoiled.

We are taking it too much for granted.

Elsewhere people have to dig for it, winch it up in buckets, haul it on their heads.

Move to where water is found, for livestock, and farming. Water - so precious, so much revered.

(photo of Colorado River near Bastrop, TX) at flood in 2001

And there can be too much water and yet NOT drop to drink!

After floods as most of us humans have experienced...then (Allison) right here,

now in Europe and elsewhere.

And yet, I remember, fondly, dipping up water without fear from 'gurgling' brooks in the Vienna Woods or elsewhere in the Austrian Alps when hiking on weekends.

Wherever and whenever we meet up with water..

it has the power to soothe, refresh, nourish body and soul.

Chimayo Mission in NM built near a small rivulet.

The monks giving thanks to this gift in the high desert!