Peacefulness and transformation - Fireflag Flower - v4-#24

Today's Picture to Ponder Photo
Fireflag flower and Flowing Plant with Reflections creating an almost circle - Both photos (the one on the left and the second) were taken in Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, Florida
                  
A feeling of peacefulness, for me, is emanating from each of these pictures. In the top fireflag flower photo it's the softness of the blurred background that's creating this. In the lower photo, perhaps it's the appearance of completeness created by the almost circles as the bending branch tips meet in the water and reflects back upon themselves.
                  
Self-Reflecting Queries
#1 - Are there places in your life where you have unfinished business and completion would give you peace?
                     
If so, I invite you to take on one or more actions to have that take place. Most likely even the simplest action will start the process of serenity.                   

#2 - In the fireflag flower photo the result of the completion, so-to-speak, is a triangular shape. In art principles, as I recall, the triangle is said to be very dynamic. In this photo, it's balanced nicely by the background.
                      
In the midst of your very busy life, are you aware of where the balance is? 
                     
#3 - For whatever reason I love the fireflag flowers, especially abundant in the summer in Wakodahatchee and Green Cay Wetlands. Perhaps it's simply the delicacy of the flower and its color. Knowing how much I do love then, I assumed that I've featured them in Picture to Ponder sometime in the past year and did not want to be redundant. In fact, when I checked it's been over a year.
                     
Are there places in your life where you are hiding what you are passionate about, thinking people will be bored? If so, I invite you to start sharing with one or more persons. See what opens up for you and, most likely, them. So much happens in the interaction.
                     
For me, simply learning through an email or comment on the blog that a photograph or a thought expressed in Picture to Ponder has made a difference for you is the fuel that empowers me.

There are some amazing comments on the blog. If you haven't checked them out, please do. See BLOG.
                   
Have fun noticing, or discovering, the triangles and circles of completion in your life.

Comments

[Rebecca]

Lovely writing ...
Sheila eats these flowers ... no really I have seen her do it.

[Sheila Finkelstein]

Thanks for the laugh and acknowledgment, Rebecca. I had the thought of mentioning eating the flowers. Maybe next issue if/when I feature the Purple Gallinule eating them.

[Nancy Dault]

You said 2 things I could relate to today. First, worrying that you are repeating a subject. I do the same in my writing, having to go back and make sure I didn't tell the same story twice. And the second--oh so relevant! Thinking that what moves me would bore others. It was by writing about what is most real to me that is getting me published. If people only knew, then everyone would be published!

[Sheila Finkelstein]

What valuable and affirming feedback, Nancy. Thank you so much for sharing it.

Tell us more. What books are you having published and by whom? When?

[Nancy Dault]

My book is entitled My Experiences with Animals. It's being published by Publish America within the next year.

Thanks for asking!

[Jenn]

Beautiful photos Sheila!

In the first photo - the purple and white flower reminded me of a dancer... I don't quite know why it struck me that way, but it did. I'm a dancer - so I'm sure that had something to do with it LOL!

But the emotion that was inspired in me was that sometimes we need to flow.

Sometimes if something is unfinished, it's because the energy isn't quite right - and what is called for is a little flow. Flow through it for a bit instead of pushing against it and see what develops - no photography pun intended ;)