"And what is so rare as
a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days"
--- James Russell Lowell
House Sparrow, sometimes called
an English Sparrow on the back garden fence.
June 10, 2007
Photo by BT
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel
Lense: Canon EF75-300mm F4-5.6 IS
"A garden always gives back
more than it receives."
----Mara Beamish
Salmon Zonal Geranium
July 23, 2007
"Photography helps people
to see."
----Berenice Abbott, US Photographe
House Sparrow coming in for a drink
of water at the fountain in the back garden
June 10, 2007
Photo by BT
"I once had a sparrow alight upon
my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden,
and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance
that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." ~Henry David Thoreau
Red Velvet ivy geranium
June 4, 2007
Photo by BT
"Gardening imparts an organic
perspective on the passage of time."
- William Cowper
Escallonia
Photo by BT
June 19, 2007
Camera: Digital Rebel XT
Lense: Canon EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro
USM
"When gardeners garden,
it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves."
---Ken Druse
Red Blizzard Macro
June 10, 2007
"I believe that gardens
themselves are very healing. To be surrounded by the exquisite
beauty of nature is to experience a healing of the soul. "
----author unknown
A part of the garden.........
June 27, 2007
"I sit beside the fire and
think
Of all that I have seen,
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been......"
----J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship
of the Ring)
Arctic Red on one of the terraces
June 27, 2007
"There is, indeed,
something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the
world, and the new display of the treasures of nature."
----Samuel Johnson
