"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

 

Happy Thought zonal geranium

September 2, 2008

 

 

 

"Photography helps people to see."

 

----Berence Abbott

 

 

Freestyle White ivy geranium

September 2, 2008

Photo by BT

 

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

 

----George Washington Carver

 

 

Angel Eyes

 

 

 

"Autumn begins with a subtle change in the light, with skies a deeper blue, and nights that become suddenly clear and chilled. The season comes full with the first frost, the disappearance of migrant birds, and the harvesting of the season's last crops."- Glenn Wolff and Jerry Dennis



 

Anna's Hummingbird at Alstromeria

September 2, 2008

 

After bells had rung

And were silent........

Flowers chimed

A peal of fragrance.

---Basho

 

NNicole

September 2, 2008

Photo by BT

 

 

"They(flowers).....are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."

 

---Lydia M. Child

 

MMaroon in the bright sunlight

 

 

"If you would be happy all your life--plant a garden."

----Chinese Proverb

 

 

Christmas Cactus: Nicolas

Beginning to bloom September 3, 2008

 

 

"I always start thinking of Christmas when the Christmas Cactus begin to bloom in my garden. It is happening now!"

 

----BT

 

 



"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies."

---Gertrude Jekyll