Reflections – Close Ups Through the Year

January

 

Narcissus

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.

G. K. Chesterton

February

 

Crocus

Earth laughs in flowers . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

March

 

Lenten Rose

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

April

 

Buffalo Botanical Garden Hibiscus

Friends are flowers that never fade.

Proverb

May

 

Forget-Me-Nots

Suddenly I realize

That if I stepped out of my body I would break

Into blossom.

James Wright

June

 

Bumblebee on Begonia

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.

Tennyson

July

Milkweed Blossom

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

William Shakespeare

August

 

Field Thistle

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Lady Bird Johnson

September

 

Girasole

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.

Helen Keller

October

 

Ornamental Corn

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

November

 

Burdock Burrs

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Sheryl Crow

December

 

Spruce Needles

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Robert Frost