hh"Flowers are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy Thought
February 12, 2008
"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
Happy Thought
June 30, 2007
"Every blade of grass, each
leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking
of hope.............
----Richard Jefferies, The Pageant of Summer,
June 1883
Happy Thought
June 30, 2007
"It is at the edge of a
petal that love waits."
----William Carlos Williams
April 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
Happy Thought
April 17, 2007
"Photography helps people
to see."
----Berence Abbott
Happy Thought
April 17, 2007
"Looking for and enjoying beauty
is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of
making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles,
acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done,
the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere."---Matthew Fox
The Happy Thought Rose Pink Zonal
Geranium
April 17, 2007
"They(flowers).....are the
hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the
character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."
---Lydia M. Child
Happy Thought zonal geranium
April 3, 2007
(a wonderful gift from Susan, many
thanks to my daughter!)
"The family is the country
of the heart."
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
"Flowers really do intoxicate
me."
---Vita Sackville-West
