“You always have to remember – no matter what you’re told – that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.”
Cyndi Lauper
Author Archives: Steven Jackson
Iris Series – 29
“Band of iris-flowers
above the waves,
you are painted blue,
painted like a fresh prow
stained among the salt weeds.”
Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), U.S. poet. “Sea Iris.”
Rose Series – 65
“‘Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.”
Thomas More
Rose Series – 64
“The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we’re lucky, we all have at least one.”
Roberta Smith
A Tulip Emerges – 61
“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
Andrew Marvell
Anemone Series – 6
“I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.”
Robert Mapplethorpe
Gerber – 36
“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.”
Doug Larson
Alstroemeria Study – 8
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
Sigmund Freud
Consider The Corn – 4
“A bushel of shelled corn weighs 56 pounds.”
Consider The Corn and Potato
“Usually corn and potatoes are considered common, some might even say lowly, but on the first weekend of August the residents of North Branford (CT) elevate the two starchy staples to extraordinary heights. In its eleventh year, the Potato and Corn Festival now brings tens of thousands of visitors over three days to the typically sleepy farm town.”
My Floral Focus 