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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Earth laughs in flowers

~Ralph Waldo Emerson



With hollyhocks was kept ablaze;
In all my recollections they
In friendly columns nod and sway;
And when to-day their blooms I see,
Always the mother smiles at me;
The mind's bright chambers, life unlocks
Each summer with the hollyhocks.
-Edgar-Albert-Guest


Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. ~Jim Carrey




August, the summer day
 oil on canvas, plein air
 30x30in, copyright Jan Yates 2014
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1 comment:

  1. Beautiful, Jan :) Hollyhocks are such an old-fashioned flower; brings to mind my grandmother and how she'd grow them along the fenceline.

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