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

----Marcel Proust

 

 

A Christmas cactus flaunting its neon colors

 

"The temple bell stops

But I still hear the sound

Coming out of the flowers."

----Basho

 

 

Christmas Views

When I see the preparations
Beginning for Christmas,
My mind returns to my childhood
And the family times that we had.
Trains, books, puzzles and the like were there.
The tree with tinsel and the decorations and the
Christ child in that manger.
The manger scene at the local church
Where I was Joseph and my Sister was Mary.
The words ring out true and true as Christmas approaches.....
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

2 Corinthians 5:17

----BT

 

Holiday Cactus: Orange

 

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

----Claude Monet

 

 

Schlumbergera bud preparing to bloom

 

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

----Lady Bird Johnson

 

 

 

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

----Gerald De Nerval

 

 

Blooming Buds

 

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

----Heinrich Heine

 

 

 

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