A new year means new possibilities. Be on the lookout for opportunities that lead to new positive places, points of view and new ideas that fill you with hope.
It's summer in New Zealand, this doesn't mean settled weather so we must take every opportunity to enjoy the sunshine.
Eat all the seasonal fruit and vegetables while they are available, preferably outside!
There are roses and lavender in the garden, pick them continuously to enjoy their fragrance and ensure that they will produce new buds.
Dare to hope in a new and brighter day.
Flowers are always inspiring and have led to some great art and design.
Use edible pesticide free petals or flower heads in salads, for e.g. pansies, thyme flowers, rose petals, lavender buds, nasturtium and geranium, or pelargonium petals.
Salade du potager aux fleurs: Garden Greens and Blossoms Salad:
1 handful of snipped chives or a finely sliced tiny red onion
6 cups of mixed salad leaves such as butter crunch, red oak, curly endive, rocket, torn into pieces
several freshly picked flower heads, torn into petals
VINAIGRETTE:
2 tbs red wine vinegar
squeeze of lemon juice
1 tsp Dijon mustard
salt and pepper
1/4 cup olive oil. Whisk until the mix emulsifies.
scatter top with toasted hazelnuts chopped or whole if you like, for extra crunch.
This year learn to rest:
Daydream, feed your imagination.
It's not your possessions or talents that count but what you do with them.
Keep looking at nature for inspiration, Picasso once made a print from the skeleton of a fish he had just eaten for lunch!
If we believe, though, we'll experience that state of resting. Hebrews 4 The Message.
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