Gardening with Soule

 HappyValentine’s Day! ~Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown      

~”Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.”  ~John Ruskin  

Baby it’s cold outside, but these ducks don’t seem to mind the frigid temperatures. To them,  it’s just ducky!   ~”Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”~Michael Caine

~”And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?” ~Robert Southey

~”When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.”  ~Chinese Proverb

    Since it is another November day that’s cold outside and not fit out there for flowers, to be sure, I needed to break out the pictures.   Thank goodness for photographs and memories, they keep me in flowers until springtime  ~”Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of [...]

   Pretty face don’t you think? ~”If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” ~Unknown  

                  ~”Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist. ” ~unknown      VISIT WORDLESS WEDNESDAY  TOO!                                   

No, they are not alien fingertips,  they are the Stamen and Pistil of the tropical Hibiscus Flower. This flower is a beautiful sight, to be sure, but if you look closely, their intricate design is very interesting as well as useful for reproduction. The Hibiscus flower is bisexual and contains both the ovary and stamen.  Petals [...]