Rhododendrons and azaleas grow in most parts of the world, but they grow especially well in Seattle. Gardens all over the city are adorned with these beautiful flowers. They are a sure sign of the arrival of Spring and early summer. Today;s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are the beautiful rhododendrons and azaleas.
And in the woods a fragrance rare
Of wild azaleas fills the air,
And richly tangled overhead
We see their blossoms sweet and red.
Dora Read Goodale—Spring Scatters Far and Wide.
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
Claude Monet
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
Kakuzō Okakura, The Book Of Tea
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
Oscar Wilde
Now Spring returns with leaf and blade,
Some seek the garden, some the glade;
And all to Nature turn, but I
To the fresh fields of Poetry,
Sweet are the first green leaves, and sweet
The scents, and genial the first heat;
And backed by pine or cypress glooms
How rich the rhododendron blooms!
Yet rich or sweet as these appear,
They were as wonderful last year;
And all as then move without pause
Through the same course by the same laws….
The scents, and genial the first heat;
And backed by pine or cypress glooms
How rich the rhododendron blooms!
They were as wonderful last year;
And all as then move without pause
Through the same course by the same laws….
Archibald Young Campbell
drwilda 
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