Don's View

The origin of Valentine's Day, for celebrating loving commitments around the world, has been attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer and the Middle Age concepts of courtly love. Less sanguine, the credit has been given to St. Valentine's gift of his beating heart to a rejecting mistress.

Whatever its origin, Valentine's Day is now dedicated to exchanging thoughts and gifts of love.

These flowers were growing on a tree in Hawaii. Other images from Hawaii are at donvineimages.com.