Flowers

Flowers From Our Garden 2002

(1) The Rock         (2) Autumn Iris         (3) Portulaca         (4) White Rose        

(5) Pink and White Rose         (6) Lantana         (7) Butterfly

(8) Nastursum         (9) Pink Lilly         (10) Hollyhock

(11) Nicotiana         (12) Roses after Rain         (13) Embossed Mums        

Beloved Beloved, my Beloved, when I think That thou wast in the world a year ago, What time I sat alone here in the snow And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink No moment at thy voice, but, link by link, Went counting all my chains as if that so They never could fall off at any blow Struck by thy possible hand,--why, thus I drink Of life's great cup of wonder! Wonderful, Never to feel thee thrill the day or night With personal act or speech,--nor ever cull Some prescience of thee with the blossoms white Thou sawest growing! Athiests are as dull, Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight. Into my heaped-up heart           Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861 Garden Flowers