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

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

                               

 

ALAINN ( means "Beautiful" in Gaelic)

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty..." -John Ruskin

                                                                   buíoch..."grateful"

"Go somewhere where  you can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God..." -Anne Frank

                                                                        Éist......"Hear"

"On earth there is no heaven...but there are pieces of it.." -Jules Renard

                                                           Alainn...."Beautiful"

"I thank you God for this amazing day...for  the blue dream of the sky...for everything which is infinite, which is yes..." -e.e. cummings

                                                Tuiscint...."Understanding"

"The earth has music for those who listen.." -George Santayana

                                                         Ciúnas ......"Silence" 

"Come forth into the light of things..." - Wordsworth

" Photography begins in the mind and the eye..." -Bill Atkinson

"The poetry of the earth is never dead..'' - John Keats

                                     Ceann le Dia....."One with God"

"Trees are the earth's endless efforts  to speak to the listening heavens..." - Rabindranath Tagore

                                                 Mar atá tú...."As you are".....

"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere..." -John Muir

"We need silence to touch souls..." -Mother Teresa

Photographs 2024.