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A Flower Break

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“Wall Flowers” Gouda, Holland, 2015. Photo by Charlene Edge taken along a roadside while stopped in traffic.

Welcome to the month of May, so often associated with myriad flowers. This blog celebrates these fragile lovelies. Today, let’s hear from voices other than mine. Keep reading. At the end, there’s a slide show (click the first photo to begin) of all sorts of blossoms.

A few writers on flowers

“Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

“He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower, and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.”
― Gemma Malley, The Declaration

A flower show

Either I or my husband, Hoyt, took these photos around the U.S and overseas. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading and viewing!

Your writer on the wing,

Charlene

 

3 Responses

  1. Kathleen Brandt
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    Beautiful! Thanks, Charlene.

    • Charlene Edge
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      Hi Kathleen! Flowers bring me such joy, always have. Grew up with a mother who loved them, and I guess that rubbed off on me.

  2. Candy Dawson
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    Oooo, so lovely and I adore Georgia O’Keeffe’s words on flowers and friends. Taking time to really see, really know…

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