Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: stock

(+2 in notes above) This pretty little flower is an easy-to-grow annual that will reseed itself if the conditions aren't too bad. When I was watering my garden from spring through fall, I'd get new Stock blossoms the next spring without planting them. But if I didn't water my garden at all, I wouldn't see any the next spring. These pretty little blossoms appear in colors ranging from white through a deep magenta and all shades in-between. They are wonderful! :) (roll your mouse over the upper left corner to see two more pictures of Virginia Stock flowers.)

I have two areas in our front yard where I've planted wildflower seeds, but since we live in a rural area, the animals feast on my flowers and will eat the plant down to the ground, usually just when the flowers are ready for pictures. We put a mesh fence around my metal tub, but the larger area was not protected. The morning I got up and found the gorgeous plant that was about to erupt into bloom had been completely eaten, we went out and got a motion-detecting spayer. It's WORKING!! These two blossoms are a few that are still alive after several days and I'm elated!!! I chose this quote because it not only fits, but Steve and I are currently watching a very interesting, well-done BBC mini-series called, "The Impressionists", which is reconstructs the origins of the Impressionist art movement and features Claude Monet (among others). It's very good! :) Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) Wikipedia: Claude Monet

3 more pictures above in notes! :) Now that the mornings are cool and there is so much more moisture in the air, every morning now begins with dew-laden grass, sparkling everywhere like a billion diamonds! I enjoyed seeing the twinkling dew as I went over to my caged-in metal trough garden to look for a pretty flower to photograph. I smiled because finally, a nearly-white version of a wildflower that grows there was in a perfect position for a picture! I was also very pleased to see that it was covered with tiny dewdrops to make an elegant show! Khalil Gibran (full Arabic name Gibran Khalil Gibran, sometimes spelled Kahlil;(January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. Wikipedia: Kahlil Gibran