Gardens and Flowers

GARDENS & FLOWERS

Garden delights, lovely sights . . .
Seattle Arboretum and Japanese Garden, Skagit Valley Tulips and Backyard Beauty

SUNFLOWER

Standing tall
Stormy sky
Wind ruffled
Seeds to plant
Soon starting over

Sun flower
Sunshine

Seeds to plant
Seeds in the wind
Storms to pass
—Kathryn Keve

POLLEN
For seven April days
golden maple pollen,
an offering of this exuberant spring,
has drifted
and dusted all
like a blessing

Say the word
pollen
images take wing
something good
fertilization
pollination
fairy dust
flowers
winged seeds
maple syrup
hardwood

Japanese red maples
Dressed in bronzed filagree
Sugar maple, Paper bark
Bigleaf, Vine maple
roots run wide
holding the soil
holding the tree
brushing the sky
golden clusters sway
fairly glowing
amid cedars
and douglas fir
on river banks, road sides
on the south side
the sunny side
stretching for light

lux desiratium
universitatis

Light
is the desire of the universe

—Keve, April 2007

(c)(w)Wild Gardenia on Hosta: Little & Lewis Garden	(c)(w)Iris "For Ruth"	(c)(w)Water Lily Little & Lewis Garden
(c)(w)Wisteria and Custom Gate	Toby's Pond	(c)(w)Clematis and Mossy Log
Buddha: Nipponzan Myohoji Temple	(c)Pink Dogwood	Cranes: Nipponzan Myohoji Temple
(c)(w)(p) JG Azaleas	(c) JG Primrose Lane	(c) JG Magnolia seaboldii
(c) JG Late Wisteria	(c) JG Under the Wisteria	(c) JG Wisteria & Azaleas
(c) JG Into the Garden	(c) JG ChTrees	(c) JG MidStream
(c) JG Heron & Iris	(c) JG Ducks	(c) JG Iris & Koi
(c) (p) Tulips & Sunbreak	(c)(w) W. Himalayan Birch	(c) Tulip Town Tulips
(c) Bowl of Beauty 83	(c) (w)Monet Window	(c) Bowl of Beauty 15
(c) Stargazer	(c) Delphinium and Mustard	(c) Canna Leaf
(c) Lavender	(c) Columbine Closeup	(c) Hawaiian Ti Plant
(c) Backyard Iris	(c) Sunflower	(c) Donna's Gate