“Peace is its own reward.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Flowers
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
“It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails” – Romain Rolland
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!
“Flowers don’t tell, they show.” – Stephanie Skeem.
I’d like to be a water-lily sleeping on the river,
Where solemn rushes whisper, and funny ripples quiver.
All day I’d watch the blue sky—all night I’d watch the black,
Floating in the soft waves, dreaming on my back,
And when I’d tired of dreaming, I’d call a passing fish,
“I want to find the sea!” I’d shout, “Come! You can grant my wish!”
He’d bite me from my moorings, and softly I would slip
To the center of the river like an ocean-going ship.
The waves would laugh upon me. The wind would blow me fast,
And oh, what shores and wonders would greet me as I passed!
Yes, if I were a water-lily, I’d sail to sea in state—
A green frog for my captain—and a dragon-fly for my mate!
“Water-Lily” poem by John Chipman Farrar
“Oh, there is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love—the first fluttering of its silken wings—the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Sunshine On My Shoulders – Cliff De Young
“The truly important things in life — love, beauty, and one’s own uniqueness
— are constantly being overlooked.” – Pablo Casals
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Different looking plants, some with names unknown to me.
Maverick Mist 
