Yellow and blue splashed on a bright green canvas — God throws paint every spring.

The cactus in bloom is the most human plant — prickly with a bit of soft here or there

Every flower is an applause — for God and Carl Linnaeus.

Foxglove is the beautiful cure.

Jimson — not all flowers are just pretties.

Consider the lillies of the field … but put on clothes anyway before you go out today.  We thank you.

Flowers — manly stuff: Theophrastus, Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī and Carl Linnaeus.

Every flower is praise – in color. 

To name is to begin to see — rose, iris, poppy, columbine.

The Iceland poppy blooms then bends its head to ask to bloom again.

Lilies are the Easter flower, but every bloom on every plant shouts resurrection.

The fragrant plants hint– divine.

The ocotillo  flames red in a blue sky — pure floral praise.

Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein and Rosenquist taught us that art is more than flowers, heroes, Bible stories and buildings.