Wow! Atlanta in April - beauty everywhere! Azaleas, fabulous dogwoods, forsythia - color, new greens and life pushing up out of the ground in all directions. Light rains, comfortable temperature. If it only lasted longer...

Delicate blooms of anise unfolding in Bonnie's garden

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience.  It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong?  Maybe nothing.  Eleanor Perényi, Green Thoughts, 1981

Hostas lunging up out of the ground

Celedine wood poppies

Blueberries in the bell

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.  Martin Luther

Pale pink quince

Tiny blue flowers of Brunerra

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.  Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

The fabulous azaleas are everywhere

Bonnie's May Apple flower

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.  Galileo

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.  Benjamin Disraeli

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