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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

The Garden	BT's Poetry
Hawks	Garden Visitors
	Christmas Cactus

"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

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"The temple bell stops

But I still hear the

Sound coming out of

The flowers."

----Basho

Visit A Beautiful Rose Garden

Page 5 of the Rose Garden posted August 19th

New visitors to my flowers!

More hummingbirds, August 31, 2005

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