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My World Is Blue
“Blue, blue, my world is blue …” English lyrics to “L’Amour Est Bleu/Love is Blue” These lyrics echoed through my head as I walked through my garden this weekend, surrounded by clouds of blue...
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Deep Purple
It was a beautiful day here in Western PA – skipper and black swallowtail butterflies flitted around the garden and dark rich colors blossomed everywhere. Here are a few photos of deep purple flowers....
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Abbondanza!
Abbondanza – Italian for abundance A mild winter and a warm wet spring has set the garden awash in flowers and foliage beyond all expectation. Every day, another dozen flowers bloom for the first time...
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Beauty for a Day
Hemerocallis or daylily – from the Greek “hemera” (day) and “kalos” (beautiful) translated as “beauty for a day” – a hardy perennial native to China, Japan, and Korea whose flowers last for only one...
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Preparing for the Storm
cut down old foliage in garden and prune shrubs rake and clean up garden beds reveal unexpected blooming crocus and say hello to them view handiwork at end of the day before it is covered by white...
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At Last
At last, the skies above are blue. ~Mack Gordon At last, spring has arrived. At last, flowers are blooming. At last, the dawn chorus of birds is deafening. At last, I am in the garden. Although this...
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What a Beautiful Morning!
Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day, I’ve got a wonderful feeling, Everything’s going my way. ~lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, from “Oklahoma!” I’ve spent the early hours of the past...
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The Shape of Things
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. ~Albert Schweitzer Each day brings more plants...
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We Must Be Mad With Joy
“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, Irish author The thunderstorms passed by quickly, leaving a few...
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That Particular One
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite – that particular peach is but a detail. ~ Pablo Picasso Blame it on the weather – we seem to have re-entered Pennsylvania’s...
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Willy-nilly
“Willy-nilly” – in a haphazard or spontaneous manner ~ The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary Yesterday, the warmth and sunshine of a beautiful April day lingered into evening, a perfect time to work in...
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Floral Fireworks
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho My father was born on the 4th of July, so we always had a double reason to celebrate the holiday. And did we ever! …...
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The Big Picture
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ~Alfred Austin I haven’t photographed with a wide angle lens in my garden for many seasons. The crisp circular pattern of paths that originally...
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The Joys of July
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, July is the peak month of...
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Golden Days Ahead
One golden day redeems a weary year. ~Celia Thaxter It’s not often that turning the calendar page corresponds to a change in the garden. This August, the page and the garden turned in sync. Mild days...
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Nature’s Sarabande
Sarabande – A Baroque dance that is said to have come from the Saracens. It is in triple meter, and characteristically the second note of the measure is lengthened, giving the dance a stately, majestic...
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Outside the Gate
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Pinero The first thing visitors encounter when they come to my garden is the open space outside of the garden gate where the...
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Colors, Endless Colors
Autumn in leaves of gold, springtime a thousand shades of green unfold to summer with its joyous Joseph’s Coat of colors, endless colors, endless colors. ~from the song “Winter” by Lynn Emberg Purse...
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Wake to Sleep
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~ from “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke The end of autumn is … Continue reading →
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Spring Unfolds
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ~Rilke Even though we have had light snow all day on this vernal equinox, the garden is unfolding into spring. Bloom started...
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