Scuba Diving is my Thing.  What Floats Your Boat?

Read this lovely blissful post by Shawna Hampton with FurnitureWorks.  Shawna asks a question and I thought it best to answer, you can read her post here:

http://lovehomeinteriordesign.com/uncategorized/a-story-of-friends-and-hot-chocolate-5-things-that-say-love-in-my-world/

Shawna writes, “I want to know what you love. Give me three things…things you adore, things that make your heart go pitter-patter.”

Aloha Dear Shawna, Here are my three:

SCUBA DIVING

I’ve been a diver for over 30 years.  I am very connected to the ocean and the aquatics.  Diving was my personal motivation for losing weight and remains my biggest reason to stay in shape today.  I’ve been blessed to have some amazing eye to eye encounters with some gigantic animals, and to have visited some of the best reefs, seas and oceans on the globe.   I’ve seen the teeny weeny tiny pygmy seahorse who is smaller than a Tic Tac.   I’ve been eye to eye with a school of pilot whales.  That is my spot.  I get my best ideas at 100 feet under where I’m at home.

TRAVEL P1 (Because…Water and Rocks)

I have about 10,000 boxes of photos from travel, and you might look at them all and say, “Wow, more water and rocks.”

Then I would reply, “No no you don’t understand, that was the same beach in a storm, and this was that coastline during summer sun, and this was that high tide with surf (which is rare),  and this was that intertidal zone at low tide.”  To me they are all different and significant, but to a non water person they are all just “Water and Rocks”.  Which person are you?

TRAVEL P2 (Because we are terrestrial and often to my dismay we live on land…Botanics and Art)

I like to see things growing and blooming. I’m interested in what grows where.  My grandparents and great grandparents fed the family with their gardens during The Depression.  They were proud to avoid soup lines by eating smart with great flavor and variety, many times from foraging wild endemic plants, including ocean plants.   Culinary herbs, medicinal herbs and fruit.  I love salad and herbal teas from the globe.   I love macro photos of the microscopic patterns and differences in plants, above and below the surface.  I have an international collection of those photos and  I’m a seed saver too.

Meanwhile if I’m on land, this guy was on my camera from Italy.  He’s not my favorite kissy kissy angel face, but he’s an interesting green man (could be Bacchus but I can’t identify any grapes, can you?).

I have a lot of hardware photos.  Door knobs interest me.  I love metal art (bronze, copper, silver, pewter, titanium).  Of course I love antique nautical hardware, like portholes and lanterns.  Antique door knobs are so cool, you know like those really old crystal/glass ones, especially the colored glass knobs …they are the symbol of

OPENING and UPCYCLING and MOVING FORWARD and REINVENTING.

An entire building might be demolished, and after tear down, the hardware might still sparkle like a gem.

Thanks to Shawna for the great post…I’ll buy you a hot chocolate by the fire, I’ll have a mint tea,

and we can ponder the future.

Better if we are near the ocean with a big box of antique hardware!

Those are just a few things that I love.  What do you love?  What floats your boat?

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