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The Magical Blending of Digital Photography and Flowers

by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

"Come with me,

Into my garden,

Where beauty rests

And nature glows."

---BT

Salmon Queen blooming in the shade of the patio terrace

May 8, 2008

One of BT's all-time favorite geraniums!

Flowers bring loveliness into our lives,

The colors, the perfumy scents,

That permeate the air in the spring.

Bring to us a dreamy sensation of reality.

---BT

"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

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

---James Barrie

Solidor ivy geranium

May 6, 2008

"The temple bell stops

But I still hear the

Sound coming out of

The flowers."

----Basho

Minutia updated May 12, 2008

Updated April 23, 2008, p. 3

May updated May 1, 2008

Updated May 6, 2008

Salmon Queen ivy geranium

April 28, 2008

Salmon Queen

You are the one,

The beauty of the garden.

I marvel at the neon brightness of your blossoms.

You bring me beautiful pleasure each

Time I view your loveliness.

----BT

Peppermint Candy

May 6, 2008

"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel."

-Peter Adams

Barbe Bleau

April 28, 2008

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

Lense: Canon EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM

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

---Gertrude Jekyll

"From May on, I can hardly wait to get up to see what has happened overnight, for one of the pleasures of a garden is that something is always happening; it is not static, even for a day."

---May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968

French Quarter

April 28, 2008

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

----Chinese Proverb

"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

Happy Thought

March 26, 2008

"Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived."

----Wynn Bullock

"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

Za Za Alstromeria

May 6, 2008

"All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."

- Joseph Joubert

"A flower touches everyone's heart."

~Georgia O'Keeffe

"Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream."
- Barbara Winkler

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

- Author Unknown

"The Garden" updated April 23, 2008, page 3.

"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

Christmas Cactus: Holiday Orange

May 6, 2008

"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

March 4, 2008

I know when Spring is coming.

The blossoms speak it clearly,

With their neon hues so

Generously spread throughout

The terraces of the garden.

The winter is moving out,

At least here on the coastal plains

Where we reside with nature

Painting the landscape with beauty.

The cold days and nights go somewhere else;

While we bask and watch the season

Gently meander into our lives again, as before,

Bringing peace, tranquility, peace of mind

And a feast of colorful blossoms.

---BT, March 2, 2008

Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain.
A perfect evening.

---Basho

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

----George Washington Carver

Royal Dark Red

February 28, 2008

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

"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."----Lydia M. Child

"From May on, I can hardly wait to get up to see what has happened overnight, for one of the pleasures of a garden is that something is always happening; it is not static, even for a day."

---May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."

---Lope de Vega

"You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you............."

---Elliott Erwitt

"My theory is that the flowers, appreciating how hard I try, cannot bear to disappoint me and, therefore, bloom their hearts out in recognition of this devotion."

----Martha Smith, Beds I Have Known: Confessions of a Passionate Amateur Gardener, 1990.

Flowers bring loveliness into our lives,

The colors, the perfumy scents,

That permeate the air in the spring.

Bring to us a dreamy sensation of reality.

---BT

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

----Iris Murdoch

"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

-----Albert Einstein

"I paint with my lens."

--Roloff Beny

"In my garden, love grows."

----Martin Heidegger

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

----Marcel Proust

"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

"You can touch them with your eyes."

-- Pablo Picasso

"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

"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."

----Lorraine Anderson

"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life."

----Elizabeth Goudge

2008 Monthly Flowers

"A flower touches everyone's heart."

~Georgia O'Keeffe

"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

"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions."

----Chanakya

"But she was inside the wonderful garden and she could come through the door under the ivy any time and she felt as if she had found a world all her own."

---The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

"It is always a great pleasure-and surprise-when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure."

~ Margery Fish

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

----Laura Ingalls Wilder

"To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening. - Marina Schinz

"Often I hear people say, "How do you make your plants flourish like this?"........."What is your secret?" And I answer with one word, "Love".

----Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden, 1895

"To make enduring photographs, one must see with one's mind's eyes, for the heart and the mind are the true lens of the camera."

----Yousuf Karsh

"Take some time for simple things,

the common pleasures each day brings-

the beauty of the morning hours,

the fragrance of your favorite flowers....."

----Amanda Bradley

"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."

------Francis Cabot Lowell

"Butterflies add another dimension in the garden for they are like dream flowers----childhood dreams----which have broken loose from their stalk and escaped into the sunshine."

------Miriam Rothschild, The Butterfly Gardener, 1983

"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."

- Ansel Adams

Blooming flowers

residents of this world, too

for a short time.

---Issa

-----Lady Bird Johnson

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."

----Kozuko Okakura

"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

"Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers.
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind
And joy for weary hours."

- Mary Howitt

New Hummingbird photos on August 8, 2006!

"The temple bell stops

But I still hear the

Sound coming out of

The flowers."

----Basho

Visit A Beautiful Rose Garden

Page 5 of the Rose Garden posted August 19th

New visitors to my flowers!

More hummingbirds, August 31, 2005

"To dwell is to garden."

---Martin Heidegger

"Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within."
----Chinese Proverb

Come with me,

Into my garden,

Where beauty rests

And nature glows.

---BT

"Each flower is a soul opening out to nature."

--- Gerald De Nerval

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"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

After bells had rung

And were silent....

Flowers chimed

A peal of fragrance.

----Basho

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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

----Henri Cartier-Bresson