"Photography helps people to see."

 

----Berenice Abbott

 

 

Felix

January 15, 2008

 

"All gardening is landscape-painting."

 

---Alexander Pope

 

 

Salmon Queen

January 14, 2008

 

 

 

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

 

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 "Just living is not enough," said the butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

 

----Hans Christian Anderson

 

 

Royal Dark Red in the rain

January 5, 2008

 

"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."

----Houston, Jean

 

 

Double Red

January 5, 2008

 

"I sit beside the fire and think

 

Of all that I have seen,

 

Of meadow flowers and butterflies

 

In summers that have been......"

 

 

 

----J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

 

 

Mahogany of the rain

January 5, 2008

 

 

 

 

O geraniums, and yours O foxgloves,

 

Springing up amidst the coppice,

 

That gave my childish cheeks their rosy warmth.

 

---Colette, Sido, 1922

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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