The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence…
Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and Other Speculations.
Tag Archives: mum
Mum Series – 17
“A chrysanthemum by any other name would be a lot easier to spell.”
Robert C. Savage
Mum Series – 16
“Many people have never learned to see the beauty of flowers, especially those that grow unnoticed. For instance, when you walk outside and look down at your feet, you may see tiny flowers nestled in the moss and clover hiding under a curled fern. Most people just step on them. I paint them.”
Flowers – Erika Just
Mum Series – 15
“A symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the orderly unfolding of the chrysanthemum’s petals to represent perfection, and Confucius once suggested they be used as an object of meditation.”
Mum Series – 14
“Ye offspring of the morning sun,
Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain,
Your lives, in joy and bliss begun,
In Nature’s love unchanged remain.
With hues of bright and godlike splendor
Sweet Flora graced your forms so tender,
And clothed ye in a garb of light;
Spring’s lovely children weep forever,
For living souls she gave ye never,
And ye must dwell in endless night?”
The Flowers – Friedrich von Schiller
Mum Series – 13
“To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”
William Blake
Mum Series – 11
Have a good Mumday.
Mum Series – 10
It was cloudy and gray in my neck of the woods yesterday and when we went shopping I determined that we needed yellow flowers. Mission accomplished, I think.
Mum Series – 9
I came across a bunch of chrysanthemum at the grocers yesterday.
The Color Of Fall
I saw this mum at the florists’s yesterday and immediately added it to my basket. It seemed to me to epitomize the color of fall.
