a living flower

A flowerless room is a soulless room,

to my way of thinking;

but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

(Vita Sackville-West)

With a twist and a twirl

“Lithe and long as the serpent train,

Springing and clinging from tree to tree,

Now darting upward,

now down again,

With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.”
William Gilmore Simms

camouflage-hidden in the meadow's grass

“Landscapes have a language of their own,

expressing the soul of the things,

lofty or humble,

which constitute them,

from the mighty peaks

to the smallest of the tiny flowers

hidden in the meadow's grass”

white camouflage

“Oft when the white,

still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart,

I have felt it like a glory in my heart”
Edwin Markham

The sweet forget-me-nots

The sweet forget-me-nots,

that grow for happy lovers.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Butterfly lady

How does one become a butterfly?'' she asked pensively.

''You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.''

Trina Paulus

the right moment

Love waits for one thing, the right moment.

Anna

Rejection of love

Rejection is the greatest enemy of Love.

Sharmila Sanka

soil of acceptance

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance,

not in the atmosphere of rejection”
John Powell quotes

childhood pastime

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters

or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.”
Joseph Cornell quotes

eyes wide open

“I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open,

and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed”

to suit me

You can never get a cup of tea large enough
or a book long enough to suit me”
C.S. Lewis quotes

How do you like my new suit ?

simple

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see
and what I feel
in the best and simplest way.”
Ernest Hemingway

this little bird's paradise

The bird of paradise alights only

upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

where flowers bloom

Where flowers bloom so does hope.-
Lady Bird Johnson

my paradise garden

I love my garden, it is my very own paradise
Today I picked the first raspberry of the season.
I just had to paint it before I ate the sweet little berry