Poppies

“Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.” 

~John Keats~

A Beautiful Day

It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs.

 

~Hugo Pratt~

Roses

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.” 

~Anne Bronte~

Floral Beauty

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” 

~William Shakespeare~

Spring

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” 

~The Secret Garden~

~Spring has Sprung~

~"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."~

-- Claude Monet--

Spring has Sprung

~Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.~

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Garden Pond

~The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~
~Hanna Rion~

Pink Roses

~A single rose can be my garden, a single friend my world~
Leo Buscaglia

Flower Basket

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock."

~HENRY WARD BEECHER~

Garden seeds

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies.
~Gertrude Jekyll~

Botanical Garden

I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose, The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs like a bashful maid her head.
~Phoebe Cary~

Pink Perfection

"The very Pink of Perfection"
~Oliver Goldsmith~

Home Sweet Home

Peace - that was the other name for home. ~Kathleen Norris~

Garden

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." ~ Aristotle ~

Children

"Children are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate" ~ Anonymous ~