Welcome to Friday~~ Finding Beauty

This is a weekly get together where we celebrate the beauty we see around us and within ourselves.

This week– thanks BIG TIME – to Beverly from How Sweet the Sound– She has so graciously featured me for Pink Saturday–

Welcome to all the PINK visitors — please link with us below as you all certainly hit the requirements of finding beauty and Pinks!

This week in downtown SLC they blocked off the streets so that local artists could show off their talent.  Luckily it didn’t rain and these fun presentations could last through the weekend.  Music selection: Peter Pan’s Flight.

The focus was intent.  The air was quiet and warm. You could almost hear the buzzing of creativity yet very few spoke.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson

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As you might have guessed, my blog is once again having hic-ups and my followers button and widget is “poof”  … maybe that’s a sign huh?

~~ TTFN ♥ ♥ Claudia ~~

Long Friday for me…
I’m sure I have mentioned I work as a Design Consultant for a National Home builder. I love my job and the wonderful people I have the opportunity to work with. Some days are long though… and today one of them. I guess I was sort of having a bit of a pity party.

I was heading home up I-15– pretty busy traffic, when I noticed a young man in the car next to me beating on his steering wheel and flailing his arms and screaming (of course I couldn’t hear what he was saying, but I am pretty sure they were some colorful words) — the car in front of him had another younger man in it  and he was just as irritated and was looking in his rear view mirror screaming and flailing his arms all about too!

I am quite aware that this was a very dangerous situation–

BUT honestly all I could do was bust out laughing — I mean laugh HARD and loud (ok,maybe I even snorted but no one was there so I won’t admit to that)  and I said to myself — “Claudia those boys are having a MUCH worse day than you!! Snap out of this!!”

So, I took myself to one of my local hang outs. Some people hang out at bars or pubs… me… I walk gardens…(yes i know BoooHOOORing)  But they lift me up! With my i-pod plugged in I was listening to fantastic orchestration. Some how it seems just as the music begins to swell I would round a corner to find quite by happenstance, a perfect moment in time just ready for me to capture. Serendipity– Nudge nudge — hence the name

I know many of you are weary of flower photos, but I know when the snow is falling, in a couple of months from now, I will long for more flowering days.

Borrowing some Lyrics from Patti Griffin — Heavenly Day

“Heavenly Day”

Oh heavenly day, all the clouds blew away
Got no trouble today with anyone
The smile on your face I live only to see
It’s enough for me, baby, it’s enough for me
Oh, heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day

Tomorrow may rain with sorrow
Here’s a little time we can borrow
Forget all our troubles in these moments so few
All we’ve got right now, the only thing that
All we really have to do
Is have ourselves a heavenly day
Lay here and watch the trees sway
Oh, can’t see no other way, no way, no way
Heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day

No one at my shoulder bringing me fears
Got no clouds up above me bringing me tears
Got nothing to tell you, I’ve got nothing much to say
Only I’m glad to be here with you
On this heavenly, heavenly, heavenly, heavenly
Heavenly day, all the trouble’s gone away
Oh, for a while anyway, for a while anyway
Heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day

by Patti Griffin

Happy End of the Week!  and… Happy Pink Saturday. Thanks to Bev at How Sweet the Sound, go visit and see what others are enjoying this week.

Thanks for letting me share my smile with you,  divine visitors, you mean more to me than you will ever know. Let me know you stopped by leaving me a note in the comments section!  TTFN~~ Claudia ♥ ♥

Reflections of Pink

Pots of Pink

Rows of Pink

Happy Pink Saturday! Beverly and How Sweet the Sound are having a fun Pink bash again… come visit all the splendor, then Melissa at the Inspired Room for Its a Beautiful Life and Julia at Hooked on Fridays .

TTFN~~Claudia ♥ ♥

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Visit the ladies at How Sweet the Sound and see what they are up to this PINK Saturday.

TTFN~~ Claudia

Today I tried to think…

Oh what shall I do in Pink?

Back in the archives I go

and found just the right Pink…

Just so!

For more wonderful pinks visit Beverly at Pink Saturday.

Have a great Saturday… TTFN~~Claudia

I love the color Pink, with its many meanings these days, but for me it reminds me of the wonderful times I spent with my beautiful daughter doing fun girlie things.

Is there a special color you love?

Too many fun PINK ideas to choose from! Thanks for including me!

TTFN~~Claudia