Dahlia
Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plants native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There are at least 36 species of dahlia. Dahlia hybrids are commonly grown as garden plants. The Aztecs gathered and cultivated the dahlia for food, ceremonies, as well as decorative purposes,[3] and the long woody stem of one variety was used for small pipes.*
These are my favorite flowers, they are large and very colorful. The girl at Golden Acre explained it best, they look like fireworks, like they are exploding. I love it.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia
Spring has sprung in Bellevue
I was out and about this weekend in Bellevue and Seattle. Spring is in full bloom here and it smells as beautiful as it looks.
★ It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain
Spring in Washington
I am in Bellevue, Washington for 3 weeks for work. I went for a walk after getting checked into my hotel last night and was quite happy to see flowers in bloom everywhere. One of the first things I noticed when I left the airport was how green everything is here.
YAY Springtime.
Narcissus also know as daffodils
A cherry blossom is the name for the flower of cherry trees known as Sakura
♥ Happy Valentine’s Day ♥
February 14, 2010
Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines“). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffery Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
Modern Valentine’s Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.*
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentines_day
Daisy Up Close
Some of my daisies are starting to wilt, which is sad, but all part of their natural life cycle. I am glad I was able to share their beauty with you.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them
and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardeners , like everyone else, live second by second and minute
by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and
there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing
with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up
days and seasons past and years gone by.
- Allen Lacy
Gerbera Daisies
A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown
It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body… the heart. ~Author Unknown
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown
