Birthday Flowers [part II]

Here are a few more shots that I got while visiting the Fort Wayne Botanical Gardens last week for my birthday.  I can’t decide which one of these is my favorite because I really like all of them.  What do you think?  Which one do you like the best?

Earth laughs in flowers. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.  -Beverly Nichols

If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.         -Teri Guillemets

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion their size.   Gertrude S. Wister

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?  -Maurice Maeterlinck

Flowers really do intoxicate me.  -Vita Sackville-West

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.  -Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a photographer to flowers.  -Lisa Harstine