Saturday, April 16, 2011

My "CRAZY BEAUTIFUL" Florida Spring Finds!

Just wanted to share some of my pictures I have been taking over the past week.  These pictures show a beautiful array of Florida Gulf Coast’s Springtime flowers, nature, and new life, as well as spring time ‘thingys’ I find beautiful… ENJOY!

An assortment of Wild Roses.... So pretty!

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Letitia Landon

~Gaillardia~


Locally known as Indian Blanket

The "Camellia" in all of its splendor!

"Gratitude" and "perfection"~ that is what for camellia stands is the bloom which amidst its essence, dreams, passion and luster has delineated the very term "love" over and over again.

~Holly~

“O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.” 
Robert Southey

~Gerber Daisy~

"Flowers always make people better....
They are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul"
Luther Burbank

~Oxalis~
can you believe these little beauties are actually a weed?
" laughs in flowers." 
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not sure of the following varieties~
but they are still breathtaking!

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, 
maybe your soul has never been in bloom.~Terri Guillemets

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, 
whence came thy dazzling hue?
James Montgomery

The Birds &..
A hungry little bluebird...
nothing 'tweeter'!

The Bees
"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
Robert Green Ingersoll

"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."  ~John Ruskin

Come and visit me again... who can tell what my next blog will have in store!  Living, Loving, Laughing, and smelling the roses!

Patti