The document discusses the author's appreciation for nature during their time in Payerbach, Lower Austria. They found simple joy in painting wildflowers and were amazed by the vast meadows of green grass and wildflowers. Daisies were the author's favorite flower and would decorate their chapel with them, as daisies represent optimism. The author believes nature teaches basic life lessons and that God gave them the opportunity to appreciate His works by seeing the grandeur of nature in Austria.

1. Nature and Me…

2. The simplest things around us are also the most beautiful!

3. Roses are the queen of all flowers… they are actually simple in their structure… The thorny stems remind us that life is not all pure roses but also having some thorns is essential part of life.

4. Autumn is the best teacher in our life to teach us appreciate the gift of letting go… In letting go of life, we come to realize that there is another life unfolding before us…

5. The nature in Payerbach of lower Austria made the best out of me in art. These simple yellow wild flowers considered as “grass”; were my simple joy as I learn to paint them on paper… just lovely!

6. I can never forget Payerbach! It was like paradise for me… I remember writing a letter to my sister back home and told her that I was in paradise just by gazing at the vast meadows of green grass and lovely wild flowers!

7. …Just kept marveling at all of these gifts of our CREATOR! …Where they came from and why, o why only now I treasure them?

8. Only on this blessed earth can you find the best of the best and the most priceless of all gifts - nature!

9. I do remember that I painted these flowers more than a dozen times! Every time I paint them, something new comes out- and they look better and better!

10. NATURE INDEED IS GOD’S WORK OF ART!

11. I believe that GOD gave me the opportunity to be in AUSTRIA to see the grandeur of HIS works! Here, I learned to paint and appreciate nature to the max!

12. There were days where I just found delight in picking up old autumn leaves lying on the ground. How lovely they were in green, yellow and brown!

13. DAISIES WERE MY FAVORITES! THEY WERE SIMPLY MARVELOUS! WHAT A JOY TO PICK THEM AND PUT THEM ON A VASE TO DECORATE OUR CHAPEL.

14. Daisies are smiling anywhere you find them…to me, they are the most optimistic and happiest among the flowers!

15. These poppies, violets and daisies are simply lovely covering almost the entire fields…

16. I AM CONVINCED THAT THE BASIC LESSONS IN LIFE WERE TAUGHT BY THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS AND FORCES OF NATURE!

17. Simple, white flowers unattended, and uncared for; yet they grow and bloom in plenty! Reminds me of the Gospel of trust “ …see the flowers in the fields and the birds in the sky…and your Father care for them! ”

18. THE SEASON OF SPRING GIVES BIRTH TO NEW LIFE, NEW BEGINNING… WHAT AN INSPIRING MESSAGE OF HOPE AND RESURRECTION!

19. Sonnenhut are everywhere in summer! They make the place a wonderful abode for everyone!

20. Always, the central part of anything is always the most important… WHO then is the center of your life?

21. Every flower has a story to tell… a rose has to share about the many thorns in her life.

22. Some flowers live in clusters to find and give support to others…just like a community.

23. Let us thank GOD for every new day unfolding before us…like this flower comes to birth.

24. O all you flowers and trees , bless the LORD! And all leaves, green and yellow - praise the LORD!

25. GOD, thank you for the gift of nature you have given to man. Thank you for every season of the year that brings new life, new inspiration to us…Amen!