“Flowers … are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” ~Luther Burbank
Sunny and bright
flower
Common buckeye
“All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful; the Lord God made them all.”
~ Cecil Francis Alexander
Black Swallowtail on a Purple coneflower
“… find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson
The Promise of Spring
Every day in Northwest Tennessee we are seeing gradual signs that Spring is on its way.
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” ~Rachel Carson
Morning glories
I like to go walking in the morning when the morning glories are in full bloom. They are one of the little wildflowers that always seem to make my heart feel glad.
“Love the simple joys of life that put a smile upon your face, a light in your eyes and happiness in your heart.” ~Unknown
Honey bee
“A work of arte; and yet no arte of man,
Can worke, this worke, these little creatures can”
~ Geffrey Whitney, 1586.
Clothed in white
White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ~G. K. Chesterton
Black-eyed Susan
“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.” ~Ancient Indian Proverb
Blue-Eyed Grass
I saw this whimsical Blue-Eyed Grass growing along the banks of the Hatchie River. Though it has grass-like foliage, it is actually a member of the Iris family. When each flower finishes blooming, it leaves a small round seed pod which resembles a tear.
“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A splash of color
A beautiful field of red corn poppy and blue cornflowers sown along the roadside near Reelfoot Lake.
“Lord, make me now
As happy as the field.
With flowers enriched … “
~Eileen A. Soper
walking on a country road 