“By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” ~Edwin Elliot
Variety
flower
Along the lake’s edge
There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if people had ears;
Their earth is but the echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron
Beauty
“He has made everything beautiful in its time …” Ecclesiastes 3:11
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
walking on a country road 