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| Bernard Bosmans | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Nature's garment | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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 What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity... |
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 Ceropegia ampliata - Bushman's pipe |
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 Wet kalanchoe harensis leaf |
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 Canna Lily Tropicanna |
 The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho |
 A passionate encounter at The Grange |
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 The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. -Michael Pollan |
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 'When I slow my walk, open my eyes and listen, nature reveals her hidden beauty to me.' -Dwayne Oakes |
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 Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
 And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. -William Wordsworth |
 Hermits have no peer pressure. -Steven Wright |
 It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold. -Judy Garland |
 The purpose of our lives is to be happy. -Dalai Lama |
 Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. -Joseph Campbell |
 Dance of the Flowers |
 Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them - Voltaire |
 Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -Jean de La Fontain |
 Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. -Amos Bronson Alcott |
 Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson |
 Bring poppies for a weary mind That saddens in a senseless din. -William Winter |
 Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.-John Keats |
 Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. -Shigenori Kameoka |
 At my age flowers scare me. -George Burns |
 Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well. -Robert Heinlein |
 One joy shatters a hundred griefs. -Chinese proverb |
 Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. - proverb |
 Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. -Gerard de Nerval |
 The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. -Erich Fromm |
 There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. -Dante Alighieri |
 Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. -Thomas Carlyle |
 The past does not define you, the present does |
 We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water. - Sister Busche |
 The wise cannot be confused; the benevolent will not worry; and the brave have no fear. |
 I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature... |
 The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. -Basho |
 The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. -Author Unknown |
 In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. |
 The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. -Buddha |
 Do all things with love. -Og Mandino |
 Sadness flies away on the wings of time. |
 Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. -Don Marquis |
 You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche |
 There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. |
 Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. -Democritus |
 Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. |
 I praise loudly, I blame softly -Catherine the Great |
 Little red bug, oh so cute, Here's a black spot for your suit... -Susan M. Paprocki |
 There is no evidence that the tongue is connected to the brain. -Frank Tyger |
 Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. -Mark Twain |
 Parade-ground drill |
 Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb...... |
 There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. -James Thurber |
 I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. |
 Happy greetings from a Bougainvillea |
 One does what one is; one becomes what one does. -Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa |
 A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -Walt Whitman |
 go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain- |
 Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. -Anonymous |
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 Tears are the summer showers to the soul. -Alfred Austin |
 For visions come not to polluted eyes. -Mary Howitt |
 Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. -Betty Smith |
 A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. -Erika Harris |
 When the student is ready, the master appears. -Buddhist Proverb |
 When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. -Antonio Porchia |
 The lilac spread Odorous essence. -Jean Ingelow, Laurance (pt. III) |
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 Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. -Betty Smith |
 What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. -Joseph Addison |
 Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare... |
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 Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.-Henri Frédéric Amiel |
 Gleaming daffodils, dancing in the bright sunlight, bringing me such joy . -Haiku by David |
 Behold the ego Set in glowing emptiness On the edge of time. -Haiku Noel Kaufmann |
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 Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. -Dr. SunWolf |
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 All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful… |
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 Banksia spinulosa 'Birthday Candles'. Common Name: Hairpin Banksia |
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 “There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart. |
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 Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. |
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 Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is -Jean Anouilh |
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 From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. - William Butler Yeats |
 Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali |
 Empty-handed I entered the world... |
 Today is the last day of your life, so far. |
 Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need. -Famous Chinese Proverb |
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 Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. -Dr Samuel Johnson |
 Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? -Maurice Maeterlinck |
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 Love is putting someone else's needs before ones own. |
 Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. -- Dr Samuel Johnson |
 The future has a way of arriving unannounced. -George Will |
 Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark... |
 Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Life is a progress, and not a station. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Purple patch. |
 One must never lose time... |
 Flowering gum.jpg |
 Deep in their roots, All flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke |
 “Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain” - |
 Bathing beauties. |
 For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
 Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down |
 We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -William Shakespeare |
 Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. |
 Tears are words the heart can't express. |
 Talent and effort are nothing without focus and determination. |
 I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now. -Kahlil Gibran |
 The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. -Madame De Stael |
 The best way to see the future is to create it. |
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 Still wrapped up. |
 Iris |
 Boronia has a wonderful perfume. |
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 Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little. -Cheng Yen |
 Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. |
 "Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page." --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
 Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. -Alan Watts |
 Blue laying low |
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 Lunar magic stirs my FZ30 while sitting on our roof tiles |
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 Friendship is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days. |
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 Protea |
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 It was a very blowy day. |
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 Banksia |
 Magnolia stellata |
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 Big bud. |
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 Protea catching a late winter sun |
 The Bee |
 Spring is not far away. |
 Echium in rain |
 Protea |
 Burst of orange |
 One person's weed is another person's wildflower. ~Author Unknown |
 Here's your sweet lavender... |
 Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen |
 Flowers grow out of dark moments - Corita Kent |
 Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. -Thomas Nash |
 In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -Kozuko Okakura |
 Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. -Kahlil Gibran |
 Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole. -Mark Twain |
 As it Is |
 Your whole life will be one perennial good season. |
 Hanging garden |
 Echium |
 MEDLAR, Mespilus germanica |
 Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. |
 Know that you aren't alone... |
 A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. -Frederick The Great |
 Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. -Jerzy Kosinski |
 “The infinite is in the finite of every instant” -Zen Proverb |
 As long as it lasts |
 The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. -Buddha |
 A summer's sun is worth the having. -French Proverb |
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 "Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." -- Malcolm Gladwell |
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 Sunburst |
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 Banksia unfolding |
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 Leucadendron |
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 Rose-like camelia |
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 Kunzea |
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 Wattle on tree trunk |
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 The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity - George Carlin |
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 The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. -Will Foley |
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 Grandstanding caterpillar |
 Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. -Author Unknown |
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 Rain upon the blinding dust of earth... |
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 Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. -Author Unknown |
 Just go out there and do what you've got to do -Martina Navratilova |
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 Why ? Why, why, why do I do this ??? |
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 Nice to see you... |
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 From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. -Thomas Moore |
 I love climbing because it feels so good when I stop... |
 Journey over... |
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 You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth -Kahlil Gibran |
 In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends -Kozuko Okakura |
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 Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is -Nadine Gordimer |
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 How doth the little busy bee |
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 Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises -Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
 Button flower |
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 Yielding to nature |
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 There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito -Monty Python |
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 Wattle bird |
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 Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift -Albert Einstein |
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 I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? -Henry Moore |
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 One fleeting night of disappearing clouds and a total eclipse spectacle |
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 Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand... |
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 White explosion |
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 Chasing shadows -Uriah Heep |
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 In my life - As in the twilight - A bell sounds - I enjoy the freshness of evening. -ISSA (1763-1827) |
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 Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -- Franz Kafka |
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 Beauty is simply graceful |
 Primula excuberance |
 Seed pod of an oleander in our front garden |
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 Green and black go well together, don't they? -Tiger Woods |
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 Footpath attention seeker |
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 In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone - St. John of the Cross (Christian mystic and poet, 1542-1591) |
 The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration - Claude Monet |
 This is truly where a picture is better than a thousand words |
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 The only journey is the journey within - Rainer Maria Rilke |
 The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others -Saint John Chrysostom |
 Nothing is interesting if you're not interested -Helen MacInness |
 Winter luminosity |
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 The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.- Marcel Proust |
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 The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days - - Archbishop Robert Leighton |
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 Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role -Confucius |
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 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings... |
 Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? -Maurice Maeterlinck |
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 Settling in for the night |
 Diligence Is Priceless Treasure; Prudence Is Protective Charm. -Chinese Proverb |
 Flowers in the Sky by Zen Master Eihei Dogen |
 If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change -Buddha. |
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 Big surf |
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 Soaring high to sublimity |
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 Moon after it has been treated by Barry |
 Full blown majestry |
 In this vulnerable, resting, light |
 I am a star fallen from the Blue tent upon the green carpet -Khalil Gibran |
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 Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. -- Kahlil Gibran |
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 All the good times are past and gone.....weep no more. |
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 Plainness manifested |
 So gay a flower |
 Hibertia yellow.jpg |
 Blossom time |
 What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination? -- Joseph Campbell, |
 Superstition gone to seed... |
 A maple leaf - touching other leaves - before the ground -- Andre Surridge |
 Fuchsia in her Sunday's best |
 Eucalyptus flower |
 'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes! -William Wordsworth |
 Alone |
 Don't fence me in |
 The sun has gone but this rampant bougainvillea still radiates her warmth |
 Canna flower.jpg |
 Well these ones prefer some domestic prepared meals |
 “Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.” - Leonardo Da Vinci |
 Franks tomato.jpg |
 I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it... |
 Prayer never changes the laws of nature. -- Dan Barker |
 Where flowers bloom so does hope - Lady Bird Johnson |
 Back of seat |
 It was 3 degrees C. and this rascal got me out of bed at midnight such was the tumult |
 Gazania.jpg |
 Poppy catches a brush and some late winter sun |
 Stamen silhouette |
 Gorgeous lilly |
 The sole equality on earth is death. -- Philip James Bailey |
 “Momiji-gari” which literally means hunting Maple or Maple viewing. |
 Summer burst of colour |
 A nursing rhyme |
 Bougainvillea |
 Euphorbia stand out |
 Pussy willows going sky high |
 A delight for the eye and nose |
 Reaching for the sky |
 Cones |
 Grevillea |
 Rainbow lorikeet mating pairs stay together for life |
 Teatree flower |
 Wet King protea |
 Plenty for everyone |
 Tecoma flower sets the garden on fire |
 Going down is more daunting |
 Tomato |
 Potted begonias.jpg |
 Come with me, where chains will never bind you. All your grief at last, at last behind you. -Fantine in Les Misérables |
 Spring in the air |
 Oozing warmth on a cool day |
 Lilies of the field |
 Sunny disposition |
 Bringing sky to ground level |
 Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon |
 Pink seat and palm |
 Prunus catching a late beam of a sinking sun |
 Hakea |
 Lovable chatter |
 Blue hydreange |
 Poppies at dusk. |
 I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. -- Emily Dickinson |
 Magnolia souleanga heralding spring |
 One small rose |
 Fly on white flower |
 Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -Maori Proverb |
 King protea.jpg |
 A true spoon bender shot |
 Spiky show |
 Paulownia tomentosa flowering again in our backyard |
 Nasturium creeping through the fence |
 My will is easy to decide For there is nothing to divide... |
 Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. - Amos Bronson Alcott |
 “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”- Anais Nin |
 The best of times is now. -Oprah Winfrey |
 If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb |
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