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The Magical Blending of Digital Photography and Flowers

by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

"Come with me,

Into my garden,

Where beauty rests

And nature glows.

---BT

Promise ivy geranium

July 16, 2008

"The world will be saved by beauty."

---Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Minutia updated July 16, 2008

Vagabond ivy geranium

July 16, 2008

Photo by BT

Vagabond

You are indeed secretive,

There on the terrace and among the shadows.

I look at you and admire your colors.

You lavender hue is lovely,

There among the varied tints

Of your fellow terrace dwellers.

You make my day--in your shaded domain,

Casting your beauty throughout the microcosm

Of your flower world.

----BT

July 13, 2008

"You pick up the soil and it's like holding your mother's hand."

- Antonina Konoplev

Promise ivy geranium on a humid summer morning

July 13, 2008

Photo by BT

"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."

- Author Unknown

Freestyle White ivy geranium

July 10, 2008

Photo by BT

updated July16, 2008

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

----Brooks Anderson

West Coast Lady Butterfly near the fire camp

July 9, 2008

"Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine."

~Jeffrey Glassberg

A big Agapanthus

July 5, 2008

Photo by BT

All throughout the village

The message carries to all.

"Look it's summer," shouts the colorful Agapanthus blossoms.

"We are here, have you noticed us?"

Summer is here!

----BT

Garden Visitors updated July 8, 2008

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."

----Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Americana Deep Red zonal geranium

July 1, 2008

Photo by BT

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

---John Burroughs

The neon beauty of French Quarter, an ivy geranium on a sunny afternoon

July 1, 2008

Photo by BT

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

---Iris Murdoch

Maiden Red, a Regal Geranium

June 28, 2008

Photo by BT

"This Maiden Red is my one of my newest aquisitions to my geranium garden. It is a spectacular red, and when in the sun---it just glows!! It is indeed one of my very favorites. But then again I do say that about several of my geraniums!!!"

---BT

A Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly at the Alstromeria

June 24, 2008

Photo by BT

Cam: Digital Rebel XT

Lens: Canon EF75-300mm 4-5.6 IS

Beauty Visits

Beauty came flitting into the garden

Today with its yellow, black and blue

Looking so radiant among the Alstromeria blossoms.

A photographer's dream it is when

A magical bit of nature chooses you to

Stay with for a mystical moment in your life.

How happy one feels!

----BT

June 24, 2008

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun

And find your shoulder to light on,

To bring you luck, happiness and riches

Today, tomorrow and beyond.

~Irish Blessing

O geraniums, and yours O foxgloves,

Springing up amidst the coppice,

That gave my childish cheeks their rosy warmth.

---Colette, Sido, 1922

"Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense."

- Phyllis McGinley

"You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you............."

----Elliott Erwitt

"There's nothing quite like a flourishing garden in a sea of concrete and glass."

----Jane G. Pepper, The City's Gardener Handbook by Linda Yang

"Take some time for simple things,

The common pleasures each day brings-

The beauty of the morning hours,

The fragrance of your favorite flowers."

----Amanda Bradley

The flowers of the summer

Bring to us the lush glow of the season.

We marvel at the colors,

That nature produces for

Our enjoyment and peace of mind.

---BT

"Photography helps people to see."

----Berence Abbott, US Photographer

Freestyle White

An ivy geranium

June 4, 2008

Photo by BT

"Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity."

----Lindley Karstens

"When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves."

---Ken Druse

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

-----English Proverb

Angel Eyes

May 27, 2008

a miniature regal

a gift from a Daughter

"As I have gardened, feeling myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent partner, I have come to know true peace."

----Martha Smith

Flowers bring loveliness into our lives,

The colors, the perfumy scents,

That permeate the air in the spring.

Bring to us a dreamy sensation of reality.

---BT

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

----Elliott Erwitt

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

---James Barrie

"The temple bell stops

But I still hear the

Sound coming out of

The flowers."

----Basho

"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel."

-Peter Adams

"Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived."

----Wynn Bullock

"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."

- Author Unknown

"The Garden" updated April 23, 2008, page 3.

"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth."- - - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe

"There is something remarkably more beautiful about flowers that you yourself have planted, and divided and cared for, than any other flowers. It reminds one that the creation of beauty is a happy experience."

-----Lady Bird Johnson

March 4, 2008

I know when Spring is coming.

The blossoms speak it clearly,

With their neon hues so

Generously spread throughout

The terraces of the garden.

The winter is moving out,

At least here on the coastal plains

Where we reside with nature

Painting the landscape with beauty.

The cold days and nights go somewhere else;

While we bask and watch the season

Gently meander into our lives again, as before,

Bringing peace, tranquility, peace of mind

And a feast of colorful blossoms.

---BT, March 2, 2008

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

---Basho

"The secrets are in the plants. To elicit them you have to love them enough."

----George Washington Carver

Garden Sanctuary

You who walk,

Maybe with troubled thoughts,

Come, enter here and rest;

And may the sweet serenity of growing things,

And the heavenly, peace

Be mirrored in thy soul.

---Doxis M. Palmer

"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."----Lydia M. Child

Flowers bring loveliness into our lives,

The colors, the perfumy scents,

That permeate the air in the spring.

Bring to us a dreamy sensation of reality.

---BT

2008 Monthly Flowers

Blooming flowers

residents of this world, too

for a short time.

---Issa

-----Lady Bird Johnson

New Hummingbird photos on August 8, 2006!

"The temple bell stops

But I still hear the

Sound coming out of

The flowers."

----Basho

Visit A Beautiful Rose Garden

Page 5 of the Rose Garden posted August 19th

New visitors to my flowers!

More hummingbirds, August 31, 2005

"To dwell is to garden."

---Martin Heidegger

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

Come with me,

Into my garden,

Where beauty rests

And nature glows.

---BT

"Each flower is a soul opening out to nature."

--- Gerald De Nerval

Special Flowers of the month

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"As I have gardened, feeling myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent partner, I have come to know true peace."

----Martha Smith

After bells had rung

And were silent....

Flowers chimed

A peal of fragrance.

----Basho

Visit My Flower Pages

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

----Henri Cartier-Bresson