The garden

[dreamstars]

[reader-twisted]

“It was an act of self-preservation — however misguided it was”.

[floraurelia]

This world has women and flowers

and people still don’t believe in God?

[artemisiasea]

Just releasing everything into the hands of God

[gobloggirl]

[petaltexturedskies]

If you are in the garden, I will dress myself in leaves. If you are in the sea I will slide into that smooth blue nest, I will talk fish, I will adore salt. But if you are sad, I will not dress myself in desolation. I will present myself with all the laughters I can muster. And if you are angry I will come, calm and steady, with some small and easy story.

Mary Oliver, from "Rhapsody Part 7" in The Leaf and The Cloud: A Poem

[gacougnol]

Rimantas Dichavičius

In the meadow of Smilgai. 1965.

From the series "Rings among the flowers".

[chucklingpecan]

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Standing Deer," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[2dovess-deactivated20251229]

[theinternetarchive]

'irises,' oil on canvas, dimensions: 73.7 x 92.1 cm; vincent van gogh, dutch c. 1890.

[bobbole]

Terra Keck, The Witness to Secret Things

[huariqueje]

Still life with flowers, vegetables, fruits and berries  -  Jette Stoltz , 1964-65.

Swedish , 1923-2010

Oil on canvas ,  115 x 115 cm..

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

[twelve-sixteen]

a letter from Matisse

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written 14 July 1921, from The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920-1923

[correctopinionhaver]