Waving Hello

“Let us always meet each other with smile, 

for the smile is the beginning of love.” 

― Mother Teresa

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Buds and Blooms - Mountain Laurel

"Where flowers bloom so does hope." 

 ~ Lady Bird Johnson

The Mountain Laurel was just starting to bloom

during our visit to the Blue Ridge Parkway

05-31-20

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Painted Petals

“Be the celebrators, celebrate! 

.....the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky—celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!” 

― Osho

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Hydrangea Close Up

"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of the heaven." 

-  A.J. Balfour

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Rain on the Rhododendron

Life is water dancing to the tune of solids. 

 -  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Wet Petals

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

 ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Spread Your Petals

It doesn't matter who you are, 

 where you come from. 

 The ability to triumph begins with you. 

 Always.

 ~ Oprah Winfrey

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Delicate Awareness

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... 
meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. 

- D. H. Lawrence

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The Colors of Purple

Iris at the Hahn Horticulture Garden - Virginia Tech

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.

 ― Elizabeth Blake

More of My Iris Images - HERE 

The Beauty of Rain

But the true lover of rain.... has a deep inner enjoyment of the rain, as rain, and his sense of its beauty drinks it in as thirstily as does the drinking earth. It refreshes and cools his heart and brain; he longs to go forth into the fields, to feel its steady stream, to scent its fragrance; to stand under some heavy-foilaged chestnut-tree, and hear the rushing music on the crowded leaves. 
~ John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863

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Simply Trust

Simply trust: 

Do not the petals 

flutter down, 

Just like this?

- Issa

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Lilac Dreaming

 Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. 
~ Chinese Proverb

More Lilacs - HERE 

Opening Up

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

~ Osho

Making Memories

We do not remember days; we remember moments. 
 ~ Cesare Pavese

 Tiles added to my shop.

Petal Suggestions

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich  

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