“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”
– Heinrich Heine
“He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.”
– Celia Thaxter
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“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”
– John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections
The fate of the flowers…
The following photos were taken with my phone camera while I stood in my yard on September 28, 2019.
Winter chased Autumn with a vengeance.









































