Splash

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way,

things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe

Pied-à-terre

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ~Walt Whitman

Alike likes
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
~Zen Buddhist Proverb

Mottled

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw ~Havelock Ellis.

The Visitor

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
~Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The bite

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~Kenji Miyazawa

Flowering advice

“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll