"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