Green Tourmaline

I am very excited! On Sunday we went walking, unexpectedly in a place near Vilaflor, Tenerife. It was a magical place. As I stood waiting for hubby to get his things together I noticed a stone on the ground at my feet. I bent down and picked it up, it wasn´t in the ground, it was loose and ready to be picked. It was the most beautiful green stone, after extensive research I think it is a green tourmaline. It is the choice of crystal for the fairies and this totally makes sense to me right now. It symbolises a few other things that I can also relate to.
Then we went the walk and it was the most magical place, wish trees and vibrant wildflowers.
Ah, I love NATURE!!!

Chillies!!!

Well what can I say, yesterday I posted a new painting I had done called Solar Burst on my Tenerife Art blog and today I was making pickled beetroot with my homegrown produce, and then I thought I would make a chutney with the aubergines from the garden and all was going really well until I picked two red chillies and proceeded to rip them apart with my bare hands, I have no idea what I was thinking about. Needless to say I have spent the rest of what was a beautiful day here in Tenerife in the house with my hands submerged in ice. I washed them thoroughly with soap and rinsed with tepid water then I went outside and with great difficulty picked an aloe vera leaf and tried to squeeze the gel out, it did work for a minute or so but the burning was intense. Don´t forget whilst all this was going on I was still trying to make chutney, just holding the wooden spoon over the hot steaming pot was too hot for my poor hands. Eventually once the chutney was made I sat with my hands in a bowl of ice, ate ice cream and generaly felt very sorry for myself. However there is a silver lining, no dirty dishes could I do, oh no. Poor hubby will have to do them I can´t bear to touch my hot skin never mind submerging them in hot dish water.
SO PLEASE REMEMBER CHILLIES DO BURN AND I MEAN BURN!!!!