December in My Garden

December 18, 2018 (352/365)

“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December, a magical thing and sweet to remember: 

‘We are nearer to spring than we were in September.’" 

- Oliver Herford, "Hope," in The Century Magazine, January 1914

November in my Garden

November 21, 2018 (325/365)

"We seldom think of November in terms of beauty or any other specially satisfying tribute. 

November is simply that interval between colorful and dark. 

Then, nearly every year, come a few November days of clear, crisp weather 

that makes one wonder why November seldom gets its due." Hal Borland, November

Dahlias

September 18, 2018 (261/365)

"September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias."~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Week 38 - Technical: Focus Stacking

September 16, 2018 (259/365) • Week 38 - Technical: Focus Stacking

"Clarity affords focus." ~ Thomas Leonard #dogwoodweek38, #dogwood52, #dogwood2018 🐸

Snakeroot

September 15, 2018 (258/365)

"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more." ~ Oprah Winfrey

September Roses

September 13, 2018 (256/365)

"September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, 

but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn." ~ Rowland E. Robinson

Half Full

September 8, 2018 (251/365)

"See the glass half full...see the beauty and the hope for tomorrow." ~ Craig Sager 

As I wandered around the yard this afternoon, struggling to find something to photograph and lamenting 

the state of my garden after a week of heavy rain, I suddenly realized that my glass was actually half-full...almost!

National Dog Day

August 26, 2018 (238/365) • Happy National Dog Day! Bisous, Piper

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” ~ Roger Caras, photographer and writer

That Time of Year

May 16, 2018 (136/365)

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, 

the human soul is apt to revive also." ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

Garden Center

May 7, 2018 (127/365)

« Il faut cultiver notre jardin. » | "We must cultivate our garden." ~ Voltaire

Tradition

May 5, 2018 (125/365)

"Marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get." ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We've had these Soprano white daisies in our garden every year since we got married.

April

April 7, 2018 (097/365)

"April is the cruelest month..." ~ T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Planning

January 17, 2018 (017/365)

"January is the quietest month in the garden, but just because it looks quiet 

doesn't mean that nothing is happening." ~  Rosalie Muller Wright

January Thaw

January 8, 2018 (008/365)

"There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter.  

One is the January thaw.  The other is the seed catalogues." ~  Hal Borland

Winter Garden

December 11, 2017 (345/365)

"Of winter’s lifeless world each twig now seems a perfect part;

Yet each one holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart." ~ Charles G. Stater

Candytuft

November 26, 2017 (330/365)

"The nature of This Flower is to bloom." ~ Alice Walker
[even at the end of November!]

Frost

October 26, 2017 (299/365)

“But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.” ~ Victoria Steele Logue, Redemption

Early Autumn in My Garden

September 10, 2017 (253/365)

"There is a time in the last few days of summer
when the ripeness of autumn fills the air." ~ Rudolfo Anaya

Faded Phlox

August 30, 2017 (242/365)

“Flowers whisper 'Beauty!' to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” ~ Dr. SunWolf

Hydrangeas

August 24, 2017 (236/365)

“Even in the smallest and humblest garden, a sturdy hydrangea at once proclaims 

the place as the abode of a real gardener rather than a mere purchaser of plants.”

~ Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, 2006