Photos by Mark

August, 2003

Camera: Canon Digital 10 D

 

 

"The dahlia's first duty in life is to flaunt and to swagger and to carry gorgeous blooms well above its leaves and on no account to hang its head."

----Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden, 1899

 

A dahlia, near the sea, faces the morning sun.

Photo by Mark

August 2003

camera: Canon Digital 10 D

"Looking at my dahlias one summer day, a friend whose taste runs to the small and impeccable said sadly, "You do like big conspicuous flowers, don't you?"

----Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts, 1981

 

 

"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again."

----Elizabeth Lawrence, garden writer 1904-1985

 

 

"Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a woman---it just makes you look better to have a little color."

----Lady Bird Johnson

 

 

"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, novelist

 

 

 

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