Category: Flora

Two or three years ago I had a color bowl of large and small pansies sitting on my front porch. Every since these little guys, only about and inch and a half in diameter, have been jumping up in my lawn in the spring. This one looks like it might have been nipped by the frost we had the other night but I still think its pretty.

From Frederick Turner:

A beautiful thing, though simple in its immediate presence, always gives us a sense of depth below depth, almost an innocent wild vertigo as one falls through its levels.

I’ve been saving this one for a rainy day. Well, it’s not exactly rainy but kind of grey and ugly and I have been up to my ears in genealogy all day so here are some beautiful pink blossoms from an ornamental tree down the street.

And from the Navajo tradition:

May you walk in beauty.

I don’t even know what kind of flower this is but I found it blooming in one of my neighbors beds next to the street. The raindrops just added a little extra something.

Today’s quote is from Blaise Pascal:

In difficult times you should always carry something beautiful in your mind.

In case you wondered most of the quotes I’m posting come from a book by John O’Donohue simply titled Beauty. It has been languishing on my to read shelf for some time and I thought this would be as good a time as any to get ‘er done.

It’s raining today in Southern Oregon so I just popped out the back door to see how my Camelia bush was doing. Everything from new buds like this one to full flowers laying on the ground.

from Confucious:

Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.

The willows along the Greenway are a in varying stages of development.

From John O’Donahue:

“The Human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion and in ourselves. When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.”