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by BT

"The garden must be prepared in the soul first or else it will not flourish."

-----English Proverb

Pretty Polly geranium

July 23, 2010

Photo by BT

Canon G10 Digital

The rose that lives its little hour

Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

- Bryant

Iceberg Roses

July 12, 2010

Photo by BT

Minutia updated July 3, 2010

"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

Lavender Blizzard

July 12, 2010

Photo by BT

"A flower touches everyone's heart."

~Georgia O'Keeffe

French Quarter ivy geranium

July 9, 2010

Photo by BT

"If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden."

---Chinese saying

Dark Lavender ivy geranium

July 8, 2010

Photo by BT

"There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals."

----John Ruskin, Stones of Venice

Arctic Red

July 9, 2010

Photo by BT

"We may think that we are tending our garden, but of course, in many different ways, it is the garden and the plants that are nurturing us."

----Jenny Uglow

Freestyle Pink ivy geranium

July 3, 2010

Photo by BT

"Flowers and plants are silent presences; they nourish every sense except the ear."

~May Sarton

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

---John Burroughs

Blue Rose

A stained glass window in Ireland

Photo by BT

2007

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

---Hellen Keller

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

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."

- Marc Chagall

"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."

- Author Unknown

"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"

----Maurice Maeterlinck

Arctic Red ivy geranium

Photo by BT

June 12, 2010

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

--Iris Murdoch

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."

---Rachel Louise Carson

"Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul."

----Linda Solegato

Candy Cane and Sundance ivy geraniums

May 28, 2010

Photo by BT

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

---Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."

-- Edwin Way Teale

Vagabond ivy geranium-one of my first geraniums

May 18, 2010

Photo by BT

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."

-- Christina Rossetti

"To plant a garden is to believe in the future."

---anon.

Come with me,

Into my garden,

Where beauty rests

And nature glows.

----BT

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

---Charles Dickens

"We are living in a world of beauty, but few of us open our eyes to see it."

~ Lorado Taft

Some Portraits of Ireland---Some of my favorite places:

Ardmore-an adventure in history!

New photos added September 15, 2009.

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

---Lady Bird Johnson

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"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

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	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

2009 Monthly Flowers