Ferns in a redwood forest of California.

"The Queen of the Night" Mighty oceans of darkness slowly flow Shiny pearls like stars brightly glow Sensation of your elegant bloom Appears once in a blue moon Suspending on rough spicky surface Swaying like a pretty young princess Blooming throughout one summer night Until become whole and bright Seducing enigmatic fragrances of absolute devine Mesmerizing sweet senses of mother nature's design Precious wonder under the calm moonlight You are the gracious Queen of the Night... *Hemakumar Nanayakkara

Photo taken from a very smal Village called Samouco, a Natural Reserve of different kind of birds, in the Tagus (Tejo River) estuary. It's a very beautuful place and very near from Lisbon! I hope you like it!

"Sonnet 44 - Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers" Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers Plucked in the garden, all the summer through And winter, and it seemed as if they grew In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers. So, in the like name of that love of ours, Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too, And which on warm and cold days I withdrew From my heart's ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue, And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine, Here 's ivy!—take them, as I used to do Thy fowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colors true, And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine. *Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"With a Flower" I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too == And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness. * Emily Dickinson

Rear of the Carmel Mission in Carmel, Ca.

The river Tagus (rio Tejo, in Portuguese) estuary, in Lisbon!

Philippine aborigines, Aeta.

Near Big Sur on the California coast.

God created the rose in the likeness of a woman. The rose represents her beauty. The stem represents her strength. The petals are soft as her delicate skin, the fragrance so pure and so sweet. The leaves represent her arms outstretched, always loving and giving and for perfection ==- He made her heart of pure gold.