Unexpected blossom

Got up early and managed to complete most of the grass cutting. With so many volunteers I don't have time to do grass cutting during work time and then after work it is getting to be too hot. So I'm doing it at weekends although as the rain has stopped once I have finished it this time it will probably be quite a while before I need to do it again.

As I was cutting the grass I noticed out of the corner of my eye these very beautiful blossom on the drumstick tree. The blossom are very small and it is only when I got up close that I realised how beautiful they are.

Mandala

Today is Mother's birthday although I haven't been to any of the celebrations. There was some kind of meditation early this morning in the Amphitheatre near Matrimandir, but for me these events are too much like a display that we put on for the public.

I very much liked this mandala that had been made in the Visitor's Centre and Martin very kindly took a picture for me with his very advanced camera.

No inspiration

Once again I have had no inspiration at all for a picture today. I was interviewed for another movie this morning and then spent a lot of time talking with a couple and their child who want to come and stay several months in Auroville. Apart from taking a lot of time it also takes a lot of my energy.

I took a lot of Buddha Garden work pictures this morning for the Facebook page and this is where this picture comes from. The sweet potatoes on the last sweet potato bed in Le Jardin were far larger than anything we have taken up so far. Although I don't think the total amount from the bed will be more than the 66kg that we got from the bed in the Pryog garden.

The interview this morning helped me to elucidate better my feelings about how I work with the earth in Buddha Garden. I'm still not sure I can write it down though.

Flowers

I didn't know what to do for a picture today. I had absolutely no inspiration for drawing so I took my camera and walked around Buddha Garden. I got a lovely picture of the sunset over the pond as well as these flowers which grow just outside the office.

I decided I liked this picture the best as I love all the different colours. So that is my picture for today.

Me

I rather like this picture of me taken by a volunteer. Have uploaded it as my Facebook picture.

Feel I am getting clearer about myself in Buddha Garden.

Brighter

For some reason which I don't understand I feel a bit brighter today. I had quite a strong visual image of something similar to what is in the picture. Although both the shape and the colours were different to how I first envisaged them the image feels as if it is expressing the same energy.

Have no idea what it means but it was very satisfying to make it.

I feel like I would like to physically move more so now perhaps I will get myself to dance classes.

Emergence

This is a picture of the embroidery 'Emergence' that I finished this afternoon. As always it needs a good iron and then to be mounted. To do it properly I need acid free mount board (whatever that is!) and I've written to an arty friend of mine who I hope will know where to get it.

I'm rather pleased with it.

Its the end of the day as I write this and I feel rather tired. Its the first hot day of the year and I think that is probably the reason. I always wonder how I will manage as it gets hotter, but as it does so gradually I find that my body adjusts.