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The Magical Blending of Digital Photography and Flowers

by BT

Cameras: Canon Digital Rebel XT

Canon G10 Digital

"How lucky we are, we who love gardening and flowers!"

---BT

"The world will be saved by beauty."

---Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect."

---Adabella Radici

Garden Sanctuary

You who walk,

Maybe with troubled thoughts,

Come, enter here and rest;

And may the sweet serenity of growing things,

And the heavenly, peace

Be mirrored in thy soul.

---Doxis M. Palmer

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

----William Hazlett

Bravo Light Pink

July 2, 2009

Photo by BT

"You can touch them with your eyes."

-- Pablo Picasso

Minutia updated June 27, 2009

Serenade of the shadows

July 2, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas."

- Elizabeth Murray

Maiden Red of the shadows

July 2, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G 10 Digital

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."----Elliott Erwitt

Arctic Red ivy geranium

June 27, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again."

-----Elizabeth Lawrence

Sundance

June 27, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

"We are living in a world of beauty, but few of us open our eyes to see it."

~ Lorado Taft

Rocky Mountain Violet

"A beauty in neon, in the garden...................."-BT

June 19, 2009

Photo by BT

"There's nothing quite like a flourishing garden in a sea of concrete and glass."

----Jane G. Pepper

Americana® Deep Red

June 13, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

"The world will be saved by beauty."

---Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Christmas Cactus 2009

Destiny

June 27, 2009

Photo by BT

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

---Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maiden Iced Wine

June 11, 2009

Camera: Canon G10

Photo by BT

"The tiniest garden is often the loveliest."

----Vita Sackville-West

Candy Cane ivy geranium

June 11, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10

"When bright flowers bloom

Parchment crumbles, my words fade

The pen has dropped..........."

Morpheus

Arctic Red

June 24, 2009

Photo by BT

"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

Bravo Light Pink

June 2, 2009

Photo by BT

"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time."

----Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."

- Author Unknown

Royal Pink

June 27, 2009

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

---Mohandas Gandhi

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

---John Burroughs

"As I have gardened, feeling myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent partner, I have come to know true peace."

----Martha Smith

Come with me,

Into my garden,

Where beauty rests

And nature glows.

---BT

Freestyle Pink ivy geranium

April 17, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

Lense: Canon EF75-300mm 4-5.6 IS

"A flower touches everyone's heart."

~Georgia O'Keeffe

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

----William Hazlett

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

----Franz Kafka

True obedience:

silently the flowers speak

to the inner ear

----Onitsura

"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"

----Maurice Maeterlinck

French Quarter ivy geranium

March 29, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

---Hellen Keller

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

---Rainer Maria Rilke

"In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. "

-- Robert Hass

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."

-- Christina Rossetti

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

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect."

---Adabella Radici

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

---Gertrude Jekyll

After bells had rung

And were silent....

Flowers chimed

A peal of fragrance.

----Basho

"As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings."

----Celia Thaxter

"There is something remarkably more beautiful about flowers that you yourself have planted, and divided and cared for, than any other flowers. It reminds one that the creation of beauty is a happy experience."-----Lady Bird Johnson

"In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation."

----Louise Beebe

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

----George Washington Carver

"As I have gardened, feeling myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent partner, I have come to know true peace."

----Martha Smith

Blooming flowers

residents of this world, too

for a short time.

---Issa

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

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All gardening is landscape-painting."

---Alexander Pope

"Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity."

----Lindley Karstens

"There was the smell of all the flowers at once, as if the earth had been unconscious all day and were now waking."

---Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

"I am inclined to think that the flowers we most love are those we knew when we were very young, when our senses were most acute to color and to smell and our natures most lyrical."

----Dorothy Thompson

"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

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

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who would have beautiful roses in his garden must have beautiful roses in his heart."

----Samuel Reynolds Hole

"It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day."

----Marion Cran

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

---Lady Bird Johnson

"What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"

~ Hal Borland

"No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden."

----Hugh Johnson

"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth."- - - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe

2009 Monthly Flowers