ROSE COLLAGE...

"I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday... 

...sweet and fragrant, between its leaves..."

                                                                                               - L.M Montgomery

"It is the time you have wasted on your rose... 

...that makes your rose important..." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 "The rose shadow said that they loved the sun...

...but that they also loved the dark..." -Robin McKinley

"The rose is a rose...

                          ...And was always a rose..." -Robert Frost

                      ......."she had roses..." -Holly Lynn Payne

"The gentle rose offers a powerful joy..

..known only to the heart..."-Andrew Pacholyck

"There had never been such roses... 

...as had bloomed that summer..."-Angela Carter

"My mother used to grow roses in her garden. We'd pick them together every morning..." -Elizabeth Lim

"...as a breath held inside a rose..." - John Daniel Theme

"...that first ever rose to have fragranced the rest of my memories..." -Sanober Khan

Photographs 2026

BIRDS...

yellow Finch

"Birds were created to record everything....

   ... they were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky...

                          ...but to serve as the eyes of heaven." -Suzy Kassem

"In order to see birds....

 ...............it is necessary to be part of the silence." -Robert Lynd

                     Grackles (cow birds)

"The robin flew from his swinging sprig of ivy on to the top of the wall 

    and he opened his beak and sang...

               ...a loud, lovely trill.

                                      ...merely to show off.

        Nothing in the world 

                                          is as adorably lovely

                ...as a robin

                                     when he shows off.

and they are always nearly doing it." -Frances Hodgett Burnett (the Secret Garden)

     "A bird can carry all the sky..." -Harold Monro

Photographs 2026

LAST DAY in MAY...

"A garden is a grand teacher....

                                     

       ...It teaches patience and careful watchfulness.

            ...it teaches industry and thrift...

                                              

...above all, it teaches entire trust." -Gertrude Jekyll

"It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth...

...to feel at one's fingertips the possibility of a new season..."

- Kate Morton                                   

"To potter with green growing things...

                                     

...watching each day to see the dear,

...new sprouts come up,

                                        

...is like taking a hand in creation, I think.

...Just now my garden is like faith.

                                          

...the substance of things hoped for."- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Sometimes just to touch the earth is enough for me...

                                                  

...even if not a single thing grows from what I plant."

                -Andy Couturier

Photographs 2026