"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"

----Maurice Maeterlinck

 

Royal Dark Red ivy geranium

November 12, 2004

 

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."

----Theodore Roethke

 

 

Christmas cactus: Holiday White

November 12, 2004

camera: Canon S50 Digital

Photo by BT

 

Christmas Cactus

The November winds
Blow down the mountain,
Bringing the cool air of the winter.
The Christmas Cactus is a harbinger
Of the glorius Birth and the newness of
Christmas Time!
--BT
November 5, 2004

 

 

"Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes."

----William Wordsworth

 

 

Christmas Cactus: Thor Olga

 

"Flowers really do intoxicate me."

---Vita Sackville-West

 

 

The Buds of November

Christmas Cactus blooming November, 2004

 

"Flowers are not made by singing, 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."

----Rudyard Kipling

 

 

 

Salmon Queen on a sunny November day

 

"When I walk with you, I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole."

----William Makepeace Thackeray

 

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