"Christmas Cactus will forever remind me of family Christmases of the past."

---BT

 

 

Christmas Cactus: Nicolas

July 23, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

"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

 

 

Christmas Cactus: Nicolas

June 13, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

 

"Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature."

----Penelope Hobhouse

 

 

 

 

"To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

- William Blake

 

 

Thor Olga of the afternoon sunshine

Photo by BT

March 4, 2009

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

 

Flowers bring loveliness into our lives,
The colors, the perfumy scents,
That permeate the air in the spring.
Bring to us a dreamy sensation of reality.

---BT

 

A Beauty of the morning

"Still blooming now in February................a harbinger of Spring.........maybe..........."

---BT

 

February 26, 2009

Photograph by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

 

"A flower touches everyone's heart."
~Georgia O'Keeffe

 

Stephanie

February 7, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

"It is always a great pleasure-and surprise-when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure."

~ Margery Fish

 

 

Nicole

February 7, 2009

 

 

"The world will be saved by beauty."

---Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

 

Truncata

January 26, 2009

 

 

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

-  Author Unknown

 

 

 

 

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