Summer Sunsets

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things?  You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Camouflaged

Interesting Goldenrod Crab Spider facts:  Goldenrod Crab Spiders are “hunters.”  They don’t spin webs.  Instead they wait, without moving, on the bloom of a flower.  Because of their ability to change color, they blend in quite well.  When an insect gets near, they grab it with their strong front legs and eat it immediately.

Take It From My Good Side

Butterflies will always look beautiful, no matter what the angle. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

 

Final Hours

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Bridal Veil

Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

 

Iris

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~ Jean Giraudoux

Scarlet Macaw, Phoenix Zoo

 

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent. ~ Thomas French

 

color me happy

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ~ William Morris, writer and poet

basil blooming

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”  ~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

 

River risers

The water-lily starts and slides
Upon the level in little puffs of wind,
Tho’ anchor’d to the bottom.
Tennyson—The Princess. IV. L. 236