

Blue Rose
A stained glass window in Ireland
Photo by BT
2007

by BT
Cameras: Canon Digital Rebel XT
Canon G10 Digital
Garden Sanctuary
You who walk,
Maybe with troubled thoughts,
Come, enter here and rest;
And may the sweet serenity of
growing things,
And the heavenly, peace
Be mirrored in thy soul.
---Doxis M. Palmer
"A garden is a friend you
can visit anytime."
---anon.
Royal Dark Red
February 5, 2010
Photo by BT
Minutia
updated February 5, 2010
"Anyone who keeps the ability
to see beauty never grows old."
---Franz Kafka
Truncata Christmas Cactus of February
January 5, 2010
Photo by BT
"I sit beside the fire and
think
Of all that I have seen,
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been......"
----J. R. R. Tolkien
Mandarin kissed by the sun
January 31, 2010
Photo by BT
"If you truly love nature,
you will find beauty everywhere."
----Vincent Van Gogh
Royal Dark Red ivy geranium
January 31, 2010
Photo by BT
Have you read my poetry?
"A flower touches everyone's
heart."
~Georgia O'Keeffe
Royal Pink ivy geranium
January 31, 2010
Photo by BT
"Mysteries lie all around
us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived."
----Wynn Bullock
Freestyle White ivy geranium
January 27, 2010
Photo by BT
"All gardening is landscape-painting."
---Alexander Pope
French Quarter ivy geranium
January 27, 2010
Photo by BT
Camera: Canon G10 Digital
"Photography helps people
to see."
----Berenice Abbott
Arctic Red
January 27, 2010
Photo by BT
"Arranging a bowl of flowers
in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day---like
writing a poem, or saying a prayer."
-----Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Maiden Red zonal geranium
January 26, 2010
Photo by BT
"Subtle beauty--a light
of the garden"
---BT
Blooming flowers
residents of this world, too
for a short time.
---Issa
True obedience:
silently the flowers speak
to the inner ear
----Onitsura
"Always remember the beauty
of the garden, for there is peace."
- Author Unknown
Picasso ivy geranium
January 16, 2010
Photo by BT
"As I have gardened, feeling
myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent
partner, I have come to know true peace."
----Martha Smith
Freestyle Pink ivy geranium
January 14, 2010
Photo by BT
"Winter is an etching, spring
a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them
all."
----Stanley Horowitz
Royal Dark Red
January14, 2010
Photo by BT
"The best and most beautiful
things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must
be felt with the heart."
---Hellen Keller
"Gardening is a way of showing
that you believe in tomorrow."
----an old saying
"Every gardener knows that
under the cloak of winter lies a miracle---a seed waiting to sprout,
a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the
anticipation nurtures our dream."
----Barbara Winkler
"The flowers of late winter
and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion
to their size."
----Gertrude S. Wister
Winter berries of the north country
Photo by Jeff
"Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished."
~ Lao Tzu ~
"To me, photography is an
art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in
an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things
you see and everything to do with the way you see them."----Elliott Erwitt
"Can we conceive what humanity
would be if it did not know the flowers?"
----Maurice Maeterlinck
"As I work among my flowers,
I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with
them, and adoring them as if they were human beings."
----Celia Thaxter
"Art is the unceasing effort
to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
- Marc Chagall
Ardmore-an
adventure in history!
New
photos added September 15, 2009.
"There can be no other occupation
like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone
at their work, you would find them smiling."
----Mirabel Osler
"If we had no winter, the
spring would not be so pleasant."
----Anne Bradstreet
"To create a little flower
is the labor of ages."
- William Blake
"Where flowers bloom so
does hope."
---Lady Bird Johnson
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After bells had rung
And were silent....
Flowers chimed
A peal of fragrance.
----Basho
"The best garden should
be a personal expression."
----Michael Pollan
"Can we conceive what humanity
would be if it did not know the flowers?"
----Maurice Maeterlinck
"If all the beasts were gone, men
would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens
to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth."- - - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe
2009 Monthly Flowers
"The temple bell stops
But I still hear the
Sound coming out of
The flowers."
----Basho
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Flowers
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Geranium
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Geranium
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geranium
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October 18, 2003
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Cherry
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Garden in Co. Cork, Ireland
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Susan
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ivy geranium
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- Dungarven, Co.
Waterford, Ireland
- Eclipse of the
Moon Feb. 20, 2008
- El Paso ivy geranium
- Epiphyllum of the Night
- Escallonia
- Father's Day
- Felix Geranium
- Flowers of
Ireland, April 2002
- Flowers
of Ireland-Fota House
- Flowers in Spode
- Flowers of
Emanuel Lutheran Church
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from a Mall
- Fota House
- Freestyle
Burgundy
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Pink
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Rose
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White
- French Quarter
ivy geranium
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Visitors
- Geraniums 1
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- Geraniums 4
- Geraniums 5
- Global Cherry
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- Guest Photographer:
Bob & Birgitta
- Guest Photographer:
Donna
- Guest Photographer:
George
- Guest Photographer:
Lolita
- Guest Photographer:
Mark
- Gypsy
- Happy Thought
zonal geranium
- Hawks 2010
- Hawks March 12,
2008
- Hawks Nest May
26, 2008
- Hibiscus
- Hooded Oriole
- Hummingbirds August
2006
- Hummingbirds
- Hummingbirds
2007
- Hummingbirds
2008
- Hummingbirds2009
- Iceberg Roses
- Icelandic
Poppies
- Iceplant
- Impatiens
- In The Garden
- Iris
- Irish Flowers
April 2008
- Irish Flowers
- Irish Flowers
2
- Irish Pottery
- Jack's Photo
for Grandpa Bob
- June's Flowers
- Katydid
- Lavender
Blizzard
- Links
- Mahogany Geranium
- Maiden Iced
Wine Geranium
- Maiden Red Regal
Geranium
- Mandarin Geranium
- Mark & Susan's
Roses
- Mark's Flowers
- Martha-Washington
geranium
- Minutia page 1
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- Miscellaneous
- Morning Glories
- Mothers Day
- Mother's
Day Rose
- Neon
- New Special
Flowers-March 2004
- New Years Thoughts
- Oleanders
- Orchids
- Pansies
- Paper Whites
- Peace Lily(Spathiphyllum)
- Pepper Mint
Candy Geranium
- Petunias
- Picasso Geranium
- Pink Blizzard
Ivy Geranium
- Pink Nicole
- Poetry
- Poinsettia
- Pretty Polly
- Primroses
- Primrose
Ivy Geranium
- Promise Ivy Geranium
- Purple Dream
- Purple Splendor
- Ragtime
- Rain Flowers
- Red Blizzard
- Red Splendor
- Red Velvet
- Regal Camelot Geranium
- Rocky Mountain
Violet
- Rose Garden
in the city
- Roses
- Roses from Ireland
- Royal Amethyst
- Royal Dark Blue
- Royal Dark
Pink Geranium
- Royal Dark
Red Geranium
- Royal Light
Pink Geranium
- Royal Pink Geranium
- Salmon Queen
Geranium
- Salmon Zonal
Geranium
- Serenade
- Sharon's
Flowers
- Snow Queen
- Sofie Cascade
- Solanum
- Solidor Geranium
- Spider and Butterfly Sept. 14, 2009
- Sundance ivy geranium
- Susan's Flowers
- Susan's Flowers from France, March, 2003
- Swallowtail
Butterflies June 2008
- Sweet Peas
- Sweet Peas-summer-fall
2002
- Sybil Holmes
Geranium
- Taj Mahal Geranium
- Tango Light Orchid
Geranium
- Tulips from England
by Susan
- Vagabond Geranium
- Verbena
- Violets
- Vinco
- White Blizzard
ivy geranium
- White Nicole
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