SUNSHINE WITH A TWIST AT FAIRCHILD BOTANIC GARDEN

Here’s a news flash for those of you battling Old Man Winter right about now.  On average, one thousand people a day throw in the towel (make that snow shovel) and move to the Sunshine State.   Those averages may climb by the time El Nino gets done with most of the U.S. 

I could complain about the rain for the last two days putting a damper on our visit to Miami, where my sister Lynda just happens to have a home and a guest room, but I know I’d get very little sympathy. 

In all honesty, I’m here to bring you some sunshine with a twist following my visit to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Enjoy!   

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”

            – Claude Monet

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

            ― John Keats

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

            ― Aristotle, Politics

“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”

            ― Charles Baudelaire

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

            ― Iris Murdoch
 

“Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.”

            ― Robert A. Heinlein

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

            ― Oscar Wilde

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”

            ― Isaac Newton

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

             ― Henry Ward Beecher

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

             ― George Santayana

“God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.”

             ― Alexander Graham Bell