The morning market in Hanoi is a daily happening that gets underway well before dawn. This morning is rainy and cool but the vendors and customers are ...
Solitude ~ My Secret Garden
"My Secret Garden" is an imagined place. A place of solitude, a place for aloneness. A place to just be. To me, there are two sides to being ...
GIVERNY
It's late afternoon in early fall at Giverny, the pastoral water garden where Claude Monet created his most famous paintings. The ambiance here is ...
Southern Magnolia – One Bloom Three Ways
The magnolias are still blooming around here and what a joy they are. When fully open they are the size of small dinner plates and they are happy to ...
The Beauty of Decay Close Upl
There is nothing more lovely than a flower. Colorful, sensual, maybe a little erotic. Only we humans see flowers for their beauty. Nature's gift. ...
Withering Beauty
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ___Henry Miller Like many of you, I am ...
A Single Bloom – a Single Image (3)
A blood red amaryllis bloom basks in the late afternoon sun. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, ...
A Single Bloom – a Single Image (2)
A Phalaenopsis orchid in full bloom basks in the early morning sun. One of the most coveted flowering plants, the delicate, exotic and graceful ...
A Single Bloom – a Single Image
Surely one of the most beautiful of all blossoms, the lotus is steeped in symbolism. ___The ancient Egyptians associated the lotus flower with the ...
Macro Monday – A Rose and a Variation
Aren't roses stunning? Their beauty and complexity astounds. A myriad of layered petals, some tightly wound, others not. Fragrant and thorny, in hues ...
