Photo Buffet

The best things in life are nearest:  Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.  Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Each spring…a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground.   Lewis Gantt

True Springlike weather has taken a long time to arrive this year in the Pacific Northwest. First flowers are a celebration.

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden . . . You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden. - Rudyard Kipling

“When it comes, the Landscape listens—Shadows hold their breath…” - Emily Dickinson

Down by a pond at a nearby wildlife refuge grow bunches of wildflowers. I love how the light plays across them in the half hour before dusk.