After the Rain

"Always it's spring and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves." E.E. Cummings

Anartia Fatima on Lantana

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." R. Buckminster Fuller

When it Rains on Roses

"Come out here where the roses have opened. Let soul and world meet." Rumi

Daisies for Pam

“Comes the little daisy, blooming fresh and fair,
Springing bright and joyous in the morning air.” T F Seward

Sunset from Paitilla, Panama

"So everything that ever happened,
we knew about in Panama." Ruben Blades

Water Lily

"I have shaken loose. Like the lily, I rest on the deep water's surface.
Not knowing the journey's end, I rest in nature's embrace." Patricia R. Woodruff

Swallowtail Butterfly Wing

"We are like butterflies
who flutter for a day and think is is forever." Carl Sagan

Pink Petals

"Flowers enshrine my heart between their
petals; that's why my heartbeats love them so much." Munia Khan

Gate's Pass, Tucson, AZ

"my dear, I have nothing to say.
my heart burns
like the evening sky." Sanober Khan

Malachite

"Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing." Robert Frost

Icy Flows

"Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice." Dejan Stojanovic

Heliconius Emerges

"If nothing ever changed, there would be no such thing as butterflies" Wendy Mass