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flowers

by madd-matt

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coreopsis
a foggy morning...
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. - Rachel Carson
old is new...
"Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life." - Omar Khayyám
orange jewelweed (impatiens capensis)
purple coneflower (echinacea purpurea)
queen anne's lace/wild carrot (daucus carota)
just a lily...
cosmos
some flowers...
shy cosmos
daisy
coltsfoot...
softly, darkly.
“One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.” - Henry David Thoreau
“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.” - Pam Brown
forget-me-not
violet
quiet riot.
wild strawberry
purple trilliums
trout lilies (Erythronium americanum)
"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment." - Ellis Peters
plum blossoms
rosy twisted stalk
coltsfoot
painted trilliums
starflowers
apple blossoms...
apple blossoms
last years fruit...
nodding trillium (Trillium cernuum)
painted trillium (Trillium undulatum)
buttercup (Ranunculus)
blue-bead lily (clintonia borealis)
pink lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
columbines
pink lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
June, sundown.
Indian cucumber root (Medeola virginiana)
Flowers...
another foxglove evening...
daisy days...
soft rush (Juncus effusus)
and now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast...
Water hemlock (Cicuta maculata)
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
"The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it." - Leonardo da Vinci
Also,
“The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile.” - Kahlil Gibran
rhymes with...
"Spring in the world! And all things are made new!" - Richard Hovey
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
Fire...
“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.” - Walt Whitman
“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it” - George Santayana
"Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness!" - Thomas Blackburn
"No object is mysterious....The mystery is your eye." - Elizabeth Bowen
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." - G. K. Chesterton
In a dark time the eye begins to see. - Theodore Roethke
If you look at a thing 999 times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it for the 1000th time, you are in danger of seeing it for the first time. - G. K. Chesterton
"Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom." - Zenkei Shibayama
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.” - Walt Whitman
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