Too Much In The Sun

Posted in: Environment, Featured by Catalina Toma | March 24th 2011 | no comments

Turn off the lights please! Make it day time! And there came the day with its breaking dawns and its bright sun… What if I end up wishing I could turn off and on in whatever moment pleases me the light of the sun or the light of the moon? If you had a button that would [...]

In The Mood For Strawberries

By Catalina Toma | February 2nd 2011 | no comments

They taste like “a piece of heaven”, “they have a sweet tangy taste…that it’s so good is orgasmic”, “like feeling rain for the first time”, they taste “smart”- these were some of the answers provided [...]

Sailing Towards Colorful Seas

By Catalina Toma | January 28th 2011 | no comments

“In the town where I was born / Lived a man who sailed the sea / And he told us of his life / In the land of submarines / So we sailed up to the sun / Till we found the sea of green / And we lived beneath the waves / In our yellow submarine / We all live [...]

The Dance Of Grapes In Nature

By Catalina Toma | January 27th 2011 | no comments

“And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.”-These words belong to Winston Churchill, replying to Bessie Braddock who told him he was drunk. Indeed [...]

Under The Spells Of Witchery

By Catalina Toma | January 24th 2011 | no comments

Once upon a time, in a land where witchcraft and witches felt at home, someone made his or her voice heard and defined a witch as being “a healer, a walker between the worlds, a weaver, a shaman, a wise [...]

Cold…Hot…Even Hotter-Aphrodisiacs Coming From Nature

By Catalina Toma | January 21st 2011 | no comments

“There was a young lady of fashion / Who had oodles and oodles of passion. / To her lover she said / As they climbed into bed, / “Here’s one thing the bastards can’t ration.”-Before starting wondering to whom [...]

Yellow Meadows

By Catalina Toma | January 19th 2011 | no comments

“Nature rarer uses yellow / Than another hue; / Saves she all of that for sunsets,-- / Prodigal of blue, / Spending scarlet like a woman, / Yellow she affords / Only scantly and selectly, / Like a lover’s words.”- I couldn’t agree more to Emily Dickinson’s poetic use of words, a use that touches the yellow hues present rather scarcely in nature. Yet, when looking at a meadow [...]

Night Crawler

By Catalina Toma | January 18th 2011 | no comments

Hello everyone! I am Chill Billy Earthworm and I spend the entire day or almost the entire day because even though I am quite slim shady I do get tired from time to time, eating dirt. Therefore I guess it is clear to everyone that I inhabit the earth and my crawling friends do the same. I have to say I love my peaceful yet busy life…it keeps me in good shape and ready to take any new [...]

It Smells Like Purple

By Catalina Toma | January 17th 2011 | no comments

Along the existence we happen to be spending many moments in the middle of nature, a kingdom where colors prevail and surround us under a veil of captivating shades and nuances. We all know by now and recognize even with our eyes closed the green of grass and leaves and trees and ferns, the pink of a flower, the red of strawberries and of poppies and even of butterfly wings, the yellow [...]

Sweet Tasty Surrender

By Catalina Toma | January 15th 2011 | no comments

I stepped into this day carrying with me images of gardens of flowers and fragrant herbs. I just remembered of the days now long forgotten of my childhood when waking up in the morning I used to spend most of my time in the little garden my grandmother has in front of the house. I tended to think at that time and I somehow tend to consider the same right now after reconsidering things [...]

Spicing Up Things

By Catalina Toma | January 13th 2011 | no comments

Have you ever felt like making use of lots and lots of spicy ingredients meant to provide a unique flavor to your dishes or just meant to trigger some long waited reactions in you? I have to admit I did feel the need to try some of the spicy ingredients, some of them out of curiosity, some just because I heard others saying that they brought with them a somehow peerless or better said [...]

A River Of Onion Pearls

By Catalina Toma | January 12th 2011 | no comments

I shall now install upon the present day lands the domination of fragrant smells, smells coming disguised as flavoring vegetables carrying with them various odors and a whole myriad of tastes. This new day comes to introduce to you the captivating story of the onion. Do I hear anyone voicing against the supremacy of the “all mighty onion”? There must be some there who tend to dislike [...]

The Saga Of The Disguised Rose

By Catalina Toma | January 11th 2011 | no comments

We are surrounded every day by all sorts of aromas, flavors, different tastes and smells. We end up finding some of them appealing, others we come to dislike with our entire being, yet they nevertheless continue to exist and no matter if we wish to encounter them or not they keep spreading in the air and pertain to us too. Smells and tastes as well happen to be highly evocative and [...]

Foggy Monday Wrapped In Carnations

By Catalina Toma | January 10th 2011 | no comments

I just woke up to face a foggy Monday morning and just trying to make things better internally speaking and bring good humor back to Monday days I tried to picture an image that I knew would make me smile. As such I could say that after joining one of my colleagues in uttering the following words “I love Garfield, we both love lasagna and hate Mondays”, I tried to find something that [...]

Opening The Drawer Of Violets

By Catalina Toma | January 8th 2011 | no comments

Imagine that our brain was some sort of a small wardrobe with some very well established drawers. Once you’ve had this image pictured in your mind try to discover what you would place in those drawers. I for one would place there whatever I happen to like most, regardless if I am referring to a sunset, a sunrise, a field of wild flowers, the face of a dear person, the petals of some [...]

Thy Name Is Rose

By Catalina Toma | January 7th 2011 | 6 comments

In one of those moments of sweet surrender, when one simply decides to say ‘enough is enough’ or anyway something similar to this, and simply confide in time and universe and after a long, long time of deciduous concentration and permanent attention being paid to every tiny detail I’ve made up my mind to loosen up things and simply let the amazing fragrances and colors present [...]

Thorny Beauty

By Catalina Toma | January 5th 2011 | no comments

Leave yourself wrapped under a veil of fascination, under the captivating influence of a rather antonymic plant, a plant of contrasts, one which brings together delicacy portrayed in brilliant flowers and toughness embodied by the sharp spines that are able to keep the viewer at a considerable distance. This plant can be viewed as the very epitome of paradox. It is a paradox how [...]

Pigeon Love

By Catalina Toma | January 4th 2011 | one comment

“And in the isolation of the sky, / At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make / Ambiguous undulations as they sink, / Downward to darkness, on extended wings.” – These words belong to Steven Wallace and they are meant to introduce you in the world of some amazing, literally and figuratively precious birds. They come in quite wide variety of colors and patterns, having shiny, [...]

Chickening My Way In The First Days Of The New Year

By Catalina Toma | January 3rd 2011 | no comments

Believe it or not I think the chicken soup I’ve been planning to cook for the last couple of days has come to influence my writing too, haunting me dawn as it looks to me “she” no longer chickens out and wants to become a star this year. It must look as no star to you, yet going deep into the matter of chickens you will be most surely surprised to discover that chickens can be [...]