Day 50 – Catkins
“Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter’s pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, And willow stems grow daily red and bright. These are days […]
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Spring
19
Feb
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13
Feb
Day 44 – Wondrous fair
“Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will […]
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12
Feb
Day 43 – Inside
“I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.” ~ Lucy Christopher
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6
Feb
Day 37 – Daffodil Design
“Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.” ~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen I wish I could say these are in […]
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4
Jul
Day 185 – Pink Perfection
“The very pink of perfection.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith This is a Tamerisk which is growing in my front garden. It is wild and unruly like most of my garden and puts on the most beautiful […]
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11
Jun
Day 162 – Family Masterpiece
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” ~ George Santayana
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11
May
Day 131 – Quince Blooms
“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.” ~ Edward […]
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8
May
Day 128 – Fairy Bells
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” ~ J. B. Priestley And this […]
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5
May
Day 125 – Montana display
“And ‘t is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.” – William Wordsworth This beautiful white Clematis Montana grows up the front of my house. It is a wild thing that every […]
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26
Apr
Day 116 – River of blue
“April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay I love the way the bluebells look like a carpet in the woods or a river of blue that flows down […]
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