Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening
when you’d have preferred to talk.
Photo: Desert Springtime. (c) Sam Gross, circa, 1950
Quote of the Week – Wisdom
Tag: Flower
Quote of the Week — Imagine
I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps planets revolving in their orbits,
and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
(Quentin Crisp)
Photo: Wild flowers in Central Australia. (c) Sam Gross, circa 1948.
All in a name
“A rose by any other name, still smells as sweet.”
But would it sound as sweet? Imagine if you will…
He sent his beloved a bunch of red cabbages.
Or
“in the spring becomes a platyrhodon.”
Or
” Tis the last thistle of summer left blooming all alone.”
(c) Marie Trudinger 2018
Photos (c) Marie Trudinger 2018
Desert in Bloom
After good winter rains, the desert, in Central Australia, explodes into colour.
(c) S. O. Gross circa 1950
Desert in Bloom
After good winter rains, in Central Australia, the desert blooms into a riot of colour.
(c) S. O. Gross circa 1950
Ricky and the giant Dahlia
What better way to show that spring has sprung in the Southern Hemisphere. (c) S. O. Gross (1961)
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