"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."

---Gary Snyder

 

 

 

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

------Author: Franz Kafka

 

Alstromeria with Anna's hummer "coming in for a feeding"

August 3, 2006

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 inner peace."

----Martha Smith, Beds I Have Known, 1990

 

 

 

Alstromeria

June 29, 2006

 

 

 

"Take some time for simple things,
the common pleasures each day brings-
the beauty of the morning hours,
the fragrance of your favorite flowers....."

----Amanda Bradley

 

 

 

The Alstromeria are blooming!

June 30, 2006

 

 

"Flowers leave some of the fragrance in the hand that bestows them."

----Chinese Proverb

 

 

 

 

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-- Henry James

 

 

The blooms are coming.

June 29, 2006

 

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

----Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

 

 

 

 

 

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