The Zinnia ...

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”

               ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

                         ~ 1887-1986

A beautiful zinnia gushes with color on a late summer evening in early September at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

Zinnia is a genus of plants of the sunflower tribe within the daisy family. They gush in color, including white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red purple and lilac. Their tendency to attract butterflies and hummingbirds is seen as desirable. The genus honors German master botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759).

Daisies Don't Tell ...

   “If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.”

                         ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

                                    ~ 1887-1986

The popular 1950s catchphrase says “Daisies Don’t Tell,”  but this lone wild daisy along the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail), Slatington, Pennsylvania speaks of spring with its sweet and simple beauty on a May afternoon.

Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

Slatington, established in 1864, is the designated Blackboard Capital of America.

Background texture by Jai Johnson added for artistic effect.

Canvassing Cherry Blossom Row ...

“Filling a space in a beautiful way – that is what art means to me.”

                             ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

                                       ~ 1887-1996

Kwanzan Cherry Trees line the city with beauty in April on North Ott Street near Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania as afternoon traffic flows by their beautiful but fleeting pink canvas.

There are 46 Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees in the vicinity. The original trees date to the late 1950s and early 1960s.