Blooms

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Andersen

A weed is but an unloved flower.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
~William Blake

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
~Malcolm de Chazal

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
~Abraham Lincoln

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
~D. H. Lawrence

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
~Sharon Tate

Camellia-petal

fell in silent dawn . . .

spilling

A water-jewel

~Matsuo Bashō

Our yard is in bloom. We'll have daisies soon and maybe even a few sunflowers. Last night we all sat outside, reading and breathing in the glorious, briney ocean stink. The air is thick with hope. The Amazing Bob's recovery can't be far off.