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
