“Earth laughs in flowers.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I walked around the yard this morning, taking pictures of what is surviving in our awful heat here in Arkansas. We usually have weather like this in AUGUST – not from May through now – in un-ending record heat.  Even with daily irrigation some of the plants are simply giving up. The trees are shedding their leaves in an effort to sustain life.  As I look at these, I see all the weeds and pruning that are needed – when “I” can survive long enough to work longer outside….

 

Wave Petunias

 

 

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

 

Wisteria

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval

 

Phlox

 

Phlox and Elephant Ear

“Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.” – Neil Young

 

Lily

“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.” ~Chinese Proverb

 

Mandevilla

“Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.” ~The Koran

Hydrangea

 

 

Impatiens

“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz

Salvia

“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.” ~Lydia M. Child

 

Rio Samba Roses

“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” ~Jim Carrey