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Saturday, October 5, 2013

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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Welcome to my garden.

Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

 "A garden is a friend 
you can visit any time.
 Come.....walk with me.

Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
It rained last night,  
and everything is green.

"Weather means more 
when you have a garden.
There's nothing 
like listening to a shower,
and thinking how it is soaking in 
around your green beans."
Marcelene Cox, American Writer
 
Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
 It's a beautiful day to walk 
in the garden.

I put out the fall garden flag...

Garden Flag.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

 and the scarecrow...
 
Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
...and the metal pumpkin. 

Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
The the temp is a cool 56 degrees.  

Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
  The sky is blue

The sunflowers 
are bright golden yellow.

Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
 The chrysanthemums 
are a brilliant red and yellow.

Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
"Friends are flowers in life's garden."

Mums, Dusty Miller, & Rosemary in Container.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

The silver Dusty Miller and  
Chrysanthemums 
planted in containers come back 
year after year,
and bloom until the first snow.

Mums, Dusty Miller, & Rosemary in Container.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
   
"In friendship's fragrant garden,
There are flowers of every hue,
Each with its own fair beauty
And its gift of joy for you."


Mums, Dusty Miller, & Rosemary in Container.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

 "The Amen! of Nature is always a flower."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894) American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.
Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century.

Mums, planted in the ground, come back year after year.   Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

 "All gardeners live in beautiful places,
because they make them so."
Joseph Jouber
(1754-1824) French Moralist and Essayist

 
Mums.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
"Opportunity is missed by most people,
because it is dressed in overalls,
and looks like work."
Thomas A. Edison
(1847-1931)
American inventor and businessman.  
He developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, 
long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.  
One of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production 
and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention.  


Mums.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

The little ornamental tree in the front yard
 was just a twig when I planted it.

Now it's taller than I am,
and filled with crabapples.

Crabapple Tree.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)  English poet, literary critic and philosopher.
Co-founder (with his friend William Wordsworth) of the Romantic Movement in England. 

Crabapple Tree.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood
 
I love the scent of ROSEMARY so much 
that I brush my hand over it 
each time I pass by.

"Where Rosemary flourished, 
the woman ruled."
Unknown

Dusty Miller, Mums, Rosemary.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

"It is a golden maxim 
to cultivate the garden for the nose,
and the eyes will take care of themselves."
Robert Lewis Stevenson
(1850-1894)  Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.
His most famous works are:  Treasure Island,
 Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Dusty Miller, Mums, Rosemary.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

  "As for rosemary
I let it run all over my garden walls,
not only because my bees love it,
but because it is the herb
sacred to remembrance 
and to friendship..."

Sir Thomas More
(1378-1535) British writer, statesman and philosopher



Yarrow.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

"Go often to the house of a friend;
for weeds soon choke up the unused path."
Swedish Proverb

Yarrow.  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood


"I am writing in the garden.
To write as one should of a garden
one must write not outside it,
or merely somewhere near it,
but in the garden."

Frances Hodgson Burnett
(1849-1924) English-American playwright and author.
She is best know for her children's stories:  Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86),
A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
  

"Come 
and visit me 
sometime.  

My flowers 
would like to 
meet you. "

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!


Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking
 
Cousin Tandra, Granny Lucille, Sister Gloria, Marcia.  Copyright 1959 Marcia Norwood





























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