Another beautiful flower from the Hollyhock garden that I used Picasa with a soft focus and slightly increased saturation to even more bring out the beauty.

View from the Hollyhock lodge and hot tub area at low tide with the boat. This morning I sat in the hot tub as a gentle mist with light, cool, caressing rain droplets caressed me, the water lapped to shore, and birds sang. Peace.

We were so worried about setting up the tent. The day before it had rained all day. It was NOT an easy tent to set up and we didn't want to set it up in the rain. We were blessed and it went up easily on a gorgeous sunny day. There was defintely a slight angle but it went up easily and provides plenty of room and height!

I love the Hollyhock garden and used Picasa to increase the color saturation, andused soft focus to bring out even more the bright blue Beauty of this flower against the brown boards behind.

Hollyhock May 2010

This is a photo of Kuan Yin in the Sanctuary where the "Compassion" workshop is being held at Hollyhock. I looked at it often during our session. So peaceful, so gentle, so in-lightened.