"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

 

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

Picasso on a warm summer day

August 30, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

 

"All gardening is landscape-painting."

 

---Alexander Pope

 

 

 

 

 

Sundance ivy geranium

August 30, 2009

Photoby BT

 

 

"The Hummer, glowing in the sunlight,

Hovers into the Alstromeria for nectar

On a bright August day."

---BT

 

 

Anna's Hummingbird hovering to feed on the Alstromeria blossoms

August 16, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

 

----William Hazlett

 

 

Vagabond ivy geranium

August 16, 2009

 

 

"I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

 

----Anne Frank

 

Mandarin ivy geranium

August 16, 2009

 

 

 

"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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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