Geranium: Pelargonium Peltatum

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

-----Claude Monet

"Little things seem nothing, buy they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."-----Georges Bernanos

The Beauty of Eastbourne is well named.

Flowers bloom in Spring.

New life is born after the

Long lifeless winter.

-----Rebecca

"Flowers are words even a baby can understand."

-----Arthur C. Coxe

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

----Henry David Thoreau

"It is at the edge of a petal that love awaits."

-----William Carlos Williams

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers -- and never succeeding."

-----Marc Chagall

The Beauty of Eastbourne in full morning California sunlight has a neon like quality.

"A person should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

-----Goethe