OASIS...

"The gardener cultivates wildness, 

                but does so carefully and respectfully, 

in full recognition of its mystery..." -Michael Pollan

"A garden always has a point..."- Elizabeth Hoyt

"To dream a garden...

...then to plant it..."-Stanley Crawford

"Gardening gives you an appreciation...
 

Rona

for the strength of life,

                    but it also shows you its fragility..." -Matt Puchalski

                                       

"Have you ever heard

                the wonderful silence

                                            just before the dawn?

Or the quiet and calm 

                         just before a storm ends? 

The hush of a country road at night...

            all very beautiful

                         if you listen carefully." 

                                                                                              -Norton Juster

Sweet Simon

"Create space simply 'to be'..."-Gabriella Goddard

rogue sunflowers

"Find a moment of stillness, give your heart a chance 

                      to tell you where you really want to be..." -Dodinsky

native cranesbill

"With each breath you take, 

                        you create space around your heart...

purple columbine                                    

...close your eyes. Notice. 

                   Trust that you choose 

                         what enters this space."- unknown

"Peace is always right here..." - Carol Tuttle

strawberry

"...it's a place where I find myself...

                                     ... when I need to lose myself..."

                                                                                           -Alice Sebold

Photographs 2026

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."-John 14:27

LAST DAY in APRIL...

AFTERNOON on a HILL by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun

I will touch a hundred flowers

 And not...

...pick one!

I will look at cliffs

and clouds

with quiet eyes,

watch the wind bow down the grass,

and the grass...

RISE!

And when the lights begin to show,

Up from the town,

I will mark which must be mine,

And then start down!

Photographs 2026 "The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm!" Exodus 14:14

OUT of NOWHERE...

SPRING is like...by e.e.cummings 1894-1962

Spring is like a perhaps hand

(which comes carefully out of Nowhere)

arranging a window, into which people look

(while people stare arranging and changing placing

carefully there a strange thing

 and a known thing here) and

changing everything carefully

Spring is like a perhaps

Hand in a window

(carefully to and fro moving

New and Old things, 

                     while

                people stare 

                     carefully

               moving a perhaps

          fraction of flower here placing

              an inch of air there) and

         without breaking anything...

Photographs 2026   Spring is like a perhaps hand poem, published in 1923, 

                                     is in the public domain.