"Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."

 

----Luther Burbank

 

Alstromeria vignette

February 24, 2007

By BT

 

 

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

----Marion Cran

 

Black Magic of the shadows

February 19, 2007

 

Black Magic

Your beauty is incomparable!

I gaze at your color

Of rich, warm claret,

Strongly appealing to my senses.

And know this is a true form of loveliness.

 

---BT

February 19, 2007

 

 

Arctic Red

February 19, 2007

 

 

 

 

"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

 

 

Royal Dark Blue

 

 

 

 

"There was a 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

 

 

 

Mahogany ivy geranium

 

 

 

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

----Marcel Proust

 

Royal Light Pink

February 19, 2007

 

The Pink glows

In the garden;

Sending forth its rays

Of beauty.

---BT

February 19, 2007

 

 

 

 

Nothng 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

 

 

 

Alstromeria in Macintosh vase

February 24, 2007

 

 

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

------Franz Kafka

 

 

 

 

 

 

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