Floral Goddess

Fresh Flowers are powerful - we're drawn into their intricate design beauty and escentuals.
Keeping a steady flow of fresh StarGazer Lillies at all times in the loft and got to wondering more about these flowers and why we might be particularly drawn to certain types. A few of my favs;

Lily.
To the ancient Egyptians, the trumpet-shaped lily was a symbol of Upper Egypt, the southern part of the country. In the ancient Near East, the lily was associated with Ishtar, also known as Astarte, who was a goddess of creation and fertility as well as a virgin. The Greeks and Romans linked the lily with the queen of the gods, called Hera by the Greeks and Juno by the Romans. The lily was also one of the symbols of the Roman goddess Venus.

Lotus:
The lotus shares some associations with the lily. Lotus flowers, which bloom in water, can represent female sexual power and fertility as well as birth or rebirth. The ancient Egyptians portrayed the goddess Isis being born from a lotus flower, and they placed lotuses in the hands of their mummified dead to represent the new life into which the dead souls had entered.

Succulents And Paradise

Huntington Gardens and Museum Hosts and expansive botanical gardens and succulent collection. Avid horticulturist and friend Dan Lynch(of SRI Fame- early Internet Guru/Pioneer) was recently in LA for some UCLA Math and Science board functions -but made time for a jaunt to one of his favorite LA haunts, the Botanical Gardens and Huntington Museum.

Lynch donated his once "largest collection in North America" of succulents to the museum years ago when he went off to college to become study math. Pictured here




The museum has a lovely photography exhibit now through September.

This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs

"This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs examines the dynamic relationship between the city and the art of photography from the 1860s to the present. Divided into seven thematic sections - Garden, Move, Work, Play, Dwell, Clash, and Dream - the exhibition explores photographs of the city through the dual lenses of landscape and the human body, as well as the provocative visual interplay between the two."