they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.” — Bill Vaughan By the way, as English satirist Craig Brown once said, “Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.” * * * Black and yellow Argiopes spider, and the garden … More “We hope that, when the insects take over the world,
that never fades.” — Audrey Hepburn * * * Blue Lacecap Hydrangea (macrophylla ‘Blaumeise’), photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.—Unknown * * * Day lilies photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
“Like the hummingbird sipping nectar from every flower, I fly joyfully through my days, seeing beauty in everything.” — Amethyst Wyldfyre Hummingbird on feeder photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. * * * Peony. Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.” — Marina Schinz “If you … More “To create a garden is to search for a better world.
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” — Dale Carnegie * * * “Outside my window” photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” — Chuck Palahniuk * * * Funky artificial flowers, photo … More “The unreal is more powerful than the real,
Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.” — Kurt Vonnegut “When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.” — Vera Nazarian * * * Pillows of Softness – Photos by Mary O’Connor © 2015
but to praise them.” — Francis A. Walker * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 