Springs in the Desert

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Isaiah 32:2: "Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land."

Verdant Valley

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us-don't tell!

They'd banish us you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog,

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

Emily Dickinson

"Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart." - Russell Page

Pepper Plants

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Mother Goose

Leaves

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." - George Burns

Arches

"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur." - Henry Miller

Connection - Denver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBKOcUbHR0

"Go! Get out of Denver, baby, go, go
Get out of Denver, baby, go
Get out of Denver, baby, go, go
Get out of Denver cause you look just like a commie
And you might just be a member
Better get out of Denver
Better get out of Denver " Bob Seger

Trees

"We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward." - Everett Mámor

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

(Alfred) Joyce Kilmer

Plumbago Auriculata.......Every Garden Grows One

Song sung blue, everybody knows one

Song sung blue, every garden grows one

Me and you are subject to the blues now and then

But when you take the blues and make a song

You sing them out again

Sing them out again

Song sung blue, weeping like a willow

Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow

Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice

And before you know it, start to feeling good

You simply got no choice

Song sung blue, everybody knows one

Song sung blue, every garden grows one

Neil Diamond

Early Spring, Late Summer at the Center

"Everyone is the age of their heart."

-Guatemalan Proverb

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."-George Elliot

"Life is a tapestry: We are the warp;

angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design." - Eileen Elias Freeman

On the Midway, 2005

"I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park." - Dolly Parton

The Texas Star, the biggest Ferris wheel in North America. Dallas, Texas

May I Quote You?

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." -Andy Rooney

"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one." - Andy Rooney

Flowers in the Park

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."- Walt Whitman

At the Bellagio

"Las Vegas - my favorite desert mirage." - Val Saintsbury

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." -G.K. Chesterton

Conservatory

" Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad." - Edwin Way Teale

Fiori Di Como

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. " - Oscar Wilde

http://www.chihuly.com/biblio/artist.html

Things With Wings Viewed From The Swing

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics." - Bill Vaughan

"Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti