When we align with Nature, Magic Happens" John Friend~ Goodbye 2010 Hello 2011

As 2010 comes to end as my eyes close and I breath in all that I have experienced. I dream of the open road, the snow capped mountains, the sweet taste of salty air from the ocean shores, hiking up a trail under the clouds but most all I long to continue to explore the destinations & people of the world....



From the Mountains of New Mexico, to the flats of Texas, to the beaches in Miami to the farms of upstate New York it has been a magical ride through out the country this year.

Life has filled my glass and I have slowly enjoyed each sip as though it was is my last. The good thing is that my glass remains full & my palate is quenched.



I have posted many kudos about the people of that I have encountered from across the states in the past. I have been touched and I have just recently learned what it means to live a charmed life...............................




No matter what life throws at you the one thing I know and understand is that you have to be like bamboo!
You have to absorb it and be very strong, your roots have to be firmly planted and you have to suck it up..


Because it will change it will get better, it is just a chapter of now, not then, not the future, it is just NOW.............It will change....





Like you I look forward to what 2011 holds....




I follow you and you follow me...........

Sunday Fun day Miami May 2010

Sunday fun days... This past Sunday I did a lot of walking, driving, resting, On the beach~On the water~on Lincoln Road and then driving through the design district! Out takes of scenes here in Miami...

A few free monks and a caged tiger mixed with a Chinese acting group running all over....

I bumped into a few Chinese actors I got lost in conversations with a monk and found myself between a caged tiger and an animal rescue activist all this before lunch..

Just another day in Miami... The Asian Festival....


I have had many conversations with friends and random people through out my
travels about life about animals and how all animals react or interact with me. Here is
another occasion when I was alone on assignment and able to meet, to touch and then
allowed to photograph a tiger. Normally this tiger Rex is not friendly to
any Males, this changes when I happened to find myself with in inches of his
cage. Pacing back and forth in the cage. I was watching him inches from the front of the
cage. When I went to get closer and approach the cage I was told to say away from it because he is
restless and agitated. As I began to look back at the Rex the tiger he
apparently was sniffing at me nose up in the air he is capturing my scent.
The next thing I see is this 700 pound tiger roll over on his back and
extend one of his paws in my direction, I turn back to the trainer and I
said I love his aggression I must be part cat. well I did get a chance to
extend my hand and with a few fingers I was able to touch his paws and then
his pad while watching his claws extend and contract with my touch.

A Cat on Miami Beach May 2009

A Cat on Miami beach............ more to follow later!

This Cat has been amused. In times of chaos I find the beauty within and without!

My next destination will become my destiny in the mean time. I will enjoy.


Miami 2009