I was tired. I yearned to be in a quiet, dark place, but had to go into the city, to the dentist. Ergh. Trudge trudge drudge. I yearned and yawned. I dragged my feet along the pavement. Pound pound sludge.
Chrysalis
Sally Swain © original art
Then I saw it.
The David Jones Spring Flower Show.
Hundreds and thousands of fresh floral faces composed into window displays. Bloomin’ pictures. Living art designed to please the senses, or should I say the scentses.
Recently I’ve been inspired (when not trudging, drudging or sludging) to photograph reflections.
It’s not just the reflection – it’s when you can simultaneously see what’s inside and what’s outside.
I love that.
Floating Oranges
Sally Swain © original art
On that drab dentist day, the spring flower show
opened the eyes of my heart.
Veins
Sally Swain © original art
I was calmed. Here was my day’s Beauty Quotient.
My Beauty Fix.
It eased me through dental discomfort.
Rosewater Pebbles
Sally Swain © original art
Amazing. This one looks like pebbles under the water at the shore, don’t you think?
What happened next? I went (inwardly) wild. I couldn’t help myself.
I fell for the wall textures in the dentist’s fancy-pants high-rise building.
Dental Wall
Sally Swain © original art
Shh. Don’t look, anyone. I might seem like a mild-mannered middle-aged woman on a bad hair day, but I’m actually a surreptitious i-Phone texture-hunter.
I might seem to be seriously studying the arrangement of elevator buttons, but actually I’m seeing Beauty in the Walls. Pattern. Texture.
Beauty beauty everywhere.
Elevate
Sally Swain © original art
That’s the trouble, my friends, with the Beauty Drug. You think you’re fine. One minute you’re sluggishly hauling your ordinary self through the central business district like everybody else but then you get your Beauty fix. And one dose of Beauty only leads to another. And it never ends.
Are you too a Beauty Addict? Do you require your daily fix?
Art and Soul Space 
Beauty everywhere! What a wondrous reminder when the media just shows us ugliness. Thank you once again dear Sally Swain for your insights, images and dental wall lusciousness.
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Dearest Jane – thank you in turn for your openness to finding and creating beauty in its many sensory forms.
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PS Glad you appreciate the Dental Wall.
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Hi!
I subscribed to your blog a while ago and am rather enjoying it. I wondered if you’d like to look at mine. I’m a 62 year old artist and writer and renaissance soul and I’ve recovered from depression and anxiety after 30 years. I’m now making up for lost time. I think I’m doing ok…
Jo UK http://www.joclutton.simplesite.com
Ps.I do exactly the same thing – photographing strange things for their beauty.
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Hello Jo. Good to ‘meet’ you here. Happy to be in touch with a ‘renaissance soul’ (what a great term).
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PS Hurrah for photographing strange things for their beauty!
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I do require my daily fix! Love that you even found beauty in the walls. Just have to look around. It’s always there somewhere!
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Yeah. Beauty even in walls. On a good day, I can find beauty in garbage (trash). That’s a good day. On an average day, it helps if it’s a tree, flower or bird.
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Sally I get my fix on my walks with nature but I do recall I could still find beauty in the big city too.
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Yes, Minuscule Moments, I relate to that. It reeeeeeally helps to spend time with a tree or two or fifty. But failing a forest nearby, the city is called upon to yield its beauty.
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The city is magic too, we stop the car and get out to hug big beautiful trees, our kids think we are nuts now that they are teens. But as children they enjoyed hugging trees too. Just for their pure beauty.
Kath
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Isn’t it a pity that hugging trees is regarded as odd?! So much joy and vibrancy, so much life force pulsing through these living beings. What a strange culture we live in where wearing suits and ties and sitting at desks in airconditioned, fluoro-lit skyscrapers is considered the height of normal?!
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