What a beautiful way to spend part of a summer day! I visited Northampton Community Gardens off Prince Street and wandered through garden after garden. With these photos I’d like to share that peaceful experience. Please join me for a virtual garden stroll. Click on the first photo then scroll through the collection of image and verse.
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” – Rumi
“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.” – Luis Barragan
“Some people like to make a little garden out of Life and walk down a path.” – Jean Anouilh
“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I value my garden more for being full of birds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.” – Joseph Addison
“To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” – Alfred Austin
“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.” – Gertrude Jekyll
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” – Michael Pollan
“I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.” – Taylor Swift
“It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.” – James Douglas
“I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand.” – Terry Pratchett
“It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.” – Bruce Lipton
Very cool Richard thanks for sharing with me! That sunflower :)!!!
Thank you, Megan . . . for whatever reason, I kept thinking of your photography as I walked here.
This is stunning. The light is magical. The photography inspiring. Is it really photos of what is there? which spots are highlighted?
Thanks, Mindy . . . These are actual photos of what is there. It’s truly a magical place . I spent a little over an hour just walking through all the plots. Highlights are everywhere.