"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

---Hellen Keller

 

A butterfly on Escallonia bush(the butterfly was about the size or your thumbnail)

August 9, 2007

 

 

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from cradle to grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."----Charles Dickens

 

 

A porcelain statue...................? No just our Siamese neighbor

August 9, 2007

 

 

"Photography helps people to see."

 

----Berenice Abbott

 

A Hooded Oriole in a neighbor's tree

August 5, 2007

 

 

"I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."

-----Wynn Bullock

 

Tree Cricket on a geranium leaf

July 27, 2007

     

 

"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

 

 

 

Butterfly on Agapanthus leaf

July 24, 2007

 

"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."

---Francis Cabot Lowell

 

Butterfly on an Agapanthus

July 24, 2007

 

 


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

----John Burroughs

 

 

 

A vine weevil in a Nicole ivy geranium flower

July 15, 2007

Photo by BT