wild roses, near the beach at Carkeek Park, Seattle Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. ~Walter De La Mare

May opened up her basket, And I looked in to see A sky of blue, The great sun too, Both smiling out at me. May opened up her basket, And o...

Sun through maple leaves at the Japanese Garden, Seattle  i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of tr...

red bridge over waterfall, Kubota Gardens, Seattle At the ancient pond a frog plunges into the sound of water ~Basho

Drummers at the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival, Seattle Center Live in simple faith... Just as this simple cherry Flower, fades and fall...

Al's plum blossoms, across the street from our house at Greenlake, Seattle It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. ~William Ca...

snowdrops, Discovery Park, Seattle Lone flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they But hardier far, once more I see thee bend Thy fore...

very first blossoms appearing at Discovery Park, Seattle, Jan 31, 2011 Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cr...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on Earth, good will to men! ...

The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. ~Emily Dickinson Inspiration Board #7 features: vintage glittered millinery stamen...

yellow maple leaves, Greenlake, Seattle That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those ...

daisies and driftwood, Discovery Park, Seattle Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A hos...

...sunset at the Oregon coast... The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembran...

wisteria, Japanese Garden, Seattle Perhaps it is possible to be gentle no matter what, to seek not restraint but surrender entirely, to tur...

Officially called "Sheer Bliss", but known at our house as Emma's Rose, in our garden I know a bank where the wild thyme b...

This is my entry for this week's challenge, Personal Symbols, at Mixed Media Monday .  This is a 6x6 inch art quilt. The base is an ima...

(beautiful rhdodendron, Japanese Garden) ...I thought of you in a clearing green and sunlit, bordered by four tall trees and the dusky sp...

Oh my. All you have to do is go to Bumbershoot Supplies to see "what I found" :) But for this week's Mixed Media Monday cha...

(Skagit Valley tulips) And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty’s secret nearer. ~E. B. Brownin...

This is my entry for the Three Muses Challenge this week: Bye, bye blackbird.  So, no matter how hard I tried to get these blackbirds to c...