Category: Mother Nature

a thousand suns

Birmingham Botanical Gardens this past spring. photo by Maggie

blue butterflies on glass

the reason Hydrangeas are my favorite flowers is because the individual blossoms, that make one large ball, look like butterflies. sweet as butterfly kisses.

overcast light

for this old blossom still holding it’s color. a gift from Suzanne’s garden.

battered backyard beauty

others may say it is flawed. i planted it myself & when i cut the roses to bring inside, they outshine any other. because it is mine.

this opening peony looks like a goose tush

shake those tail feathers. peonies remind me of childhood & my mother. my mother loved those peonies way back in the 1970s. i loved them because she did. i am 8 years old & sitting on cold, dark green grass, the taste of the blades so sweet at first, then tasting of old gum. doesn’t…

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