Photos by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

 

"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view."

~H. Fred Ale

 

 

 

 

Mahogany ivy geranium

 

 

 

"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."----Auguste Rodin

 

 

Mandarin

 

 

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

 

-----Brooks Anderson

 

 

Arctic Red ivy geranium

 

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

 

----Claude Monet

 

 

Bower vine

November 5, 2006

 

"The man who has planted a garden feels he has done something for the good of the world."

 

----Charles Dudley Warner

 

 

Christmas Cactus: Holiday White

November 5, 2006

 

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."

----Vincent Van Gogh