Plum Cottage Flowers 2004

Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
the world of the flower,
the whole of the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower,
the truth of the blossom:
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
Zenkei Shibayama..


'Bleeding hearts' at least that is what I call them here down south.
They are not the ones grown up north.

Gulf fritillary butterfly with yellow lantana.

Heliotrope


Paperwhites


Passion flower


Rain lilies


Tibouchina


Gate into grotto area


Inside grotto


This was taken Thanksgiving morning.
We had much to be thankful for,
as we had gone through hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, within two weeks of each other.

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Song: Beauty of the earth.

Created on 3 Dec. 2006