• flowers,  Plants,  quotes

    Words

    Clematis

    “Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”

    Paul Tillich

    Words have become important to me as I’ve journaled through the past few years. And, words are important in my attempts to express thoughts and ideas on this blog. When I came across this quote it very simply gave me the words I was not able to express before. I like that. I use both the words loneliness and solitude in much of my writing. Now they have a much deeper meaning for me. I love words, and flowers, and sunrises, and…

  • flowers,  Plants

    Clematis
    Clematis

    Dropped by me sisters house this past weekend and wandered around her beautiful yard looking for flowers. I found a some. Enjoy!

    Columbines
    Columbines

    Purple Flowers
    Purple Flowers

    Yellow Columbines
    Yellow Columbines

  • flowers,  Plants

    Purple Clematis

    Sheree's Clematis
    Sheree’s Clematis

    “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”  Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

    A few years ago my sister, Sheree, decided to invest time, labor and money into her yard. The fruits of her time, labor and money is now a haven, a sanctuary for her. She knows those plants by name and talks to them everyday. They are family. They love her!

  • flowers,  Plants

    End of Summer

    Yellow Coneflower

    I made a trip over to the Colorado State University Experimental Flower Garden to see what shape the flowers were in. Needless to say the season is changing so most of the petals are turning brown along the edges. But that’s not gonna stop a photographer with a camera in their hand. I pulled out the 50mm f1.4 and crawl around for 30 minutes.

  • flowers,  Plants

    Clematis

    Clematis

    A couple years ago my youngest sister, Sheree, started playing in the dirt. By that I mean she became obsessed with transforming her yard into her sanctuary. She has done an awesome job. It’s been therapy and a new field of study for her. She has built porches, flag stone walkways and arbors. She knows each plant and flower, talks to them as she weeds. This Clematis, growing on one of the lattices, was taken in her back yard.

  • Canon Powershot G12,  flowers,  Plants

    Clematis

    Clematis

    This was taken at a local nursery while shopping with my sister. SHe has several of these plants and is excited to see them this year. I will be in my recurrent training for the next 3 days, so no laptop and a bit of study, classroom work and testing going on. Hope everyone has a good week!