“He has made everything beautiful in its time …” Ecclesiastes 3:11
Beauty
flower
Wildflowers
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enjoying the view
“Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joyful
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” ~Charles H. Spurgeon
Among the blackberry blossoms
“You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.” ~Will Rogers
Busy bees
“Difficult doesn’t mean impossible. It simply means that you have to work hard.” ~Unknown
Bearded Iris
The town of Dresden, in Northwest Tennessee, has an Iris Festival on the first weekend in May. Part of the festival includes a flower show. Below are some photos from this year’s flower show as well as some of my favorite iris from around the area.
“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” ~Terri Guillemets
Fragrant blooms
“My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.” ~Alexander Smith
Hummingbird on a Weigela shrub
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa
Daffodils
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
“Winter is dead.”
~ A. A. Milne
walking on a country road 