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

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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

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SERENITY...

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will not find it anywhere else..." -Marvin Gaye

"And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky..."-Rabindranath Tagore

"Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and love..." -Nhat Hanh

"Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely..." 

                                -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength..." 

                       -Pam Brown

"Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway..." -Mother Teresa

"It is the stillness that will save and transform the world..." 

                                                                                                -Eckhart Tolle

         "Grant me the serenity ..." -Reinhold Niehubr

"The order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts..."

           -James Martineau

      "Serenity is an open door..." -Byron Katie

               "Speak peace to the soul..." - Ezra Taft Benson

"You have to be still for a moment to even notice there is silence outside..." -Eckhart Tolle

Photographs 2026

"I will awaken the dawn..."-Psalm 108:2