"The beautiful is always bizarre"

Charles Baudelaire

Art by Juan Brufal

“A garden, like its creator, should have its secrets and surprises.”

(Erica James, Gardens of Dreams)

Art: Ivy Jacobsen

A Silence Full of Stories
By Jeff Stanford, 2026

'Homeward ',
Andrea Berindei
Acrylic on Canvas

"I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me."

William Hazlitt

Artist: Guido Borelli

Carpe Diem

Art by Peter Morgan .

Randy Van Beek

Joseph Alleman

Come out of this darkness, fear and live passionately, madly again.

- Anais Nin

David Hettinger.

A world of grief and pain
flowers bloom
even then.

- Kobayashi Issa

“If you know how to look, you will see that the whole world is a garden.”

(Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden)

Art Ivy Jacobsen

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

- Anaïs Nin

The Daydream

Line Holtegaard , 2024.

Danish , b, 1980

Oil on canvas ,

Carol Collette
Spring Blossoms

Silences are ..
Different flowers
In the same garden.

Carpe Diem

Climbing Sleeping Bear Dunes, 2026

by Jef Bourgeau.

Offline is the new luxury

Evenings softened Light

Teresa Saia

by artist JB Cornish

“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
― Confucius, The Analects

Orchard Awakening
By Jeff Stanford, 2026

'Life is a comedy to those who think,
a tragedy to those who feel.'
Jean Racine

"Solitude"
Diane Leonard

“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”

― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

Art by Juan Brufal

Frayed Threads of a Grecian Summer
By Jeff Stanford, 2026

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot.

Jack Kerouac

Janet Soon art

Gathering Grapes.
Daniel Garber

“Be silent. Listen. Let it overflow.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951