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Don't choose the beautiful in this life, choose who makes your life beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but attractiveness is complex, made up of both static and dynamic qualities, and both affect perceptions of attractiveness. People aren't as beautiful as they look, as they walk or as they talk. They are only as beautiful as they love, as the care and as they share. ~Author Unknown

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Pitcher Orchid. Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt
Pitcher plant is the common name for a large range of carnivorous genera including Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Nepenthes, Cephalotus, and Heliamphora. They are very unique-looking plants and come in a wide range of colors and even shapes.

Pitcher plants get their name from their rolled-up leaves that form tube-like edges and create a pitcher shape. The plant is able to lure and trap it’s food by producing nectar inside of their pitcher. Once the prey come to get the nectar, they slip and fall into the pitcher and often aren’t able to get out due to a cap covering the opening of the pitcher, intoxicating or anesthetic substances lining the pitcher which weaken the insects, or the slippery inside that contains water that will often eventually drown the worn-out prey.

Source: Orchids Made Easy

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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie

Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never smell the perfume. ~Arthur Miller

If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather.

 ~Algernon Swinburne

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The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.
There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. ~James Montgomery

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Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day.
(You can’t overdose.)

—Pray; discuss your troubles with God.
—List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)
—Call your mom.
—Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat.
—Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent.

~Richelle E. Goodrich

Do you know why God created gaps between fingers?
So that someone who is very special to you comes
and fills those gaps by holding your hands forever. ~sms

Mothers observe all, absorb all,
give all, forgive all,
offer all, suffer all,
feel all, heal all,
hope for all, pray for all.
But most of all,
Mothers love always.

~Richelle E. Goodrich

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