Day 115 – Camellia
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe My garden definitely has a wild streak to it. Lots of corners of […]
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“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe My garden definitely has a wild streak to it. Lots of corners of […]
“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss I love this time of year. Not quite as much as I love summer mind you but close. […]
I’ve banished Winter, saith the Spring, Awake! arise, ye flowers! Brisk breezes blow, Bright sunshine glow, And rouse the young Year’s powers. ~Henry James Slack
“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.” ~ Malcolm de Chazal This quote is kinda sad really, the implication that cut flowers are smiling while they bloom but sad inside because they […]
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 took with a new lens I have. […]
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.” ~ Alain de Botton This poor Daffy had certainly been bashed about a […]
“Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.” ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster This pretty little bloom is one of many that decorates the hedgerow between my front garden and my neighbours. Every spring […]
“I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It’s a daffodil!” ~ Celia Thaxter
“When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year” ~ William Shakespeare This is a bunch of daffodils that were in that ‘not […]
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” ~ Iris Murdoch