"A garden always gives back more than it receives."

----Mara Beamish

 

A cluster of Barbe Bleu blossoms greets the winter morning

January 1, 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

 

 

A basket of Barbe Bleau ivy geranium

August 1, 2006

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

 

 

"The stardust had so touched the blossoms that they appeared to be sterling............"

 

 

Barbe Bleau of the night darkness.......

Barbe Bleau

Pelargonium Peltatum

March, 2003

Nikon CoolPix 2500 Digital camera

 

The flowers have told us
By their shimmery colors;
Spring is here,
A time of renewal.

Our fingers touched
The sterling brightness
Of the blossom;
We knew life was again
Beginning.
----BT

 

 

"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

 

 

The Barbe Bleau Geranium

 

"Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature by which she indicates how much she loves us."

-----Johann Von Goerthe

 

"And the air was stifling sweet with the breath of many flowers."

-----Robert Frost

 

 

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The maroon-red of the Barbe Bleau geranium.

 

 

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

-----Albert Einstein

 

 

 

"It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye."

-----Antoine de Sainte Exupery

 

"My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity."-----Ruth Bernhard

 

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-----Mother Teresa