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

 

----John Ruskin, Stones of Venice

 

 

 

 

Freestyle Deep Rose

May 23, 2010

Photo by BT

 

 

"The secrets are in the plants. To elicit them you have to love them enough."

----George Washington Carver

 

 

Freestyle Deep Rose ivy geranium

August 23, 2008

 

 

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

 

----William Hazlett

 

 

Freestyle Rose

August 13, 2008

 

 

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."----Georgia O'Keeffe