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

 

---Basho

 

Agapanthus

May 17, 2007

 

 

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

-- Georgia O'Keefe

 

Agapanthus

May 17, 2007

 

 

"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures."

----Diane Arbus

 

 

Agapanthus

May 23, 2007

 

 

"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.

 

 

 

 

Our agapanthus is blooming!!!

June 24, 2006

 

"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse."

----Diane Arbus

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity."

----Thoreau

 

In the Garden: June 24, 2006

 

 

"To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

----William Blake

 

Agapanthus flower preparing to bloom

June 24, 2006

Photos by BT

 

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

----Chinese Proverb

 

 

 

 

Agapanthus growing at Madingley Hall

Slender agapanthus trembling in the breeze
visited by hoverflies and bees, here
in this cooler land, cherished
with such care and placed in tubs
beside old honeyed walls,
have you forgotten with what abandon
you turned all hillsides blue?
I know how profligate you really are.
Seeing now this shadow of how I saw you once,
I cannot bear the thought of you
imprisoned in a tub.

 

----Mary Blake

 

 

A large agapanthus pod preparing to free its blossom

June 24, 2006

 

 

'The garden must be prepared in the soul first or else it will not flourish."

----English Proverb

 

 

 

 

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