"In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation."

----Louise Beebe Wilder

 

A Praying Mantis in BT's back yard-a photographer's dream

Photo by BT

August 17, 2007

 

 

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."

- Gary Snyder

 

 

A butterfly visits the garden

August 10, 2007

 

 

 

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

---John Burroughs

 

 

Hazlett

A garden spider

July 23, 2007

 

 

"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

 

A White Crowned Sparrow in the grass in the backyard garden

March 24, 2006

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

 

"Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes."

-  Abram L. Urban

 

A Black Phoebe rests on the new fence

March 22, 2006

 

"Gardens are a form of autobiography."

----Sydney Eddison

 

 

August 19, 2005: a spider explores the White Nicole Ivy Geranium

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

 

"The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes"

----Leo Tolstoy

 

 

Hummingbird at feeder: August 18, 2005

Photo by BT

 

A flash of harmless lightning,
  A mist of rainbow dyes,
    The burnished sunbeams brightening
      From flower to flower he flies.
     

 - John Banister Tabb, Humming Bird

 

 

A bee visits an Iceberg Rose blossom

May 5, 2006