summer
8 photos
autumn
8 photos
winter
1 photo
spring
16 photos
2025 flowers
21 photos
my favorites
395 photos
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ～Ambrose Bierce
flowers 2024
61 photos
signs of spring
193 photos
Spring was trying out her paces that day....like an adorable baby just learning to walk. The winter pattern of trees and fields was beginning to be overlaid with hints of green.....
- L.M....
camellia
118 photos
daffodils and narcissus
59 photos
helleborus
65 photos
ume～plum blossoms & momo～apricot blossoms
102 photos
muscari
22 photos
sakura
358 photos, 1 video
It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don't you think?
- L. M. Montgomery, " Anne of Green Gables"
To cherry blooms I come,
and under...
tulips
45 photos
ranunculus
33 photos
roses
396 photos
In the corner near her was a rich surprise of new-blown, crystal-dewed roses.
～L. M. Montgomery, "Anne of the Island"
A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Upon a common summer's morn -
A flask...
hydrangeas
187 photos
lotus flowers and water lilies
117 photos
lily
18 photos
sunflower
24 photos
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
~ Helen Keller
"The Sunflower" by William Blake
Ah, Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest...
coneflower
31 photos
cleome
22 photos
spider lilies
33 photos
anemone
54 photos
cosmos flowers
140 photos
peony
20 photos
fall foliage
312 photos
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
― Albert Camus
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Delicious autumn! My very...
snow
34 photos
The white flakes were beginning to flutter down over the fields and woods, russet and gray in their dreamless sleep.
- L. M. Montgomery, "Anne of the Island"
But what an evening it was!...
Kyoto Botanical Gardens
156 photos
flowers in vases/pots
44 photos
butterflies, bees, ladybirds and other insects
247 photos
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Just living is not...
cats, dogs, rabbits, squirrels and cows
62 photos
blossom trees
233 photos
plants, leaves, seeds...
158 photos
...
Sweetly they slept On the blue fields of heaven, and then there crept A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sign that silence heaves.
...
～John Keats
from 'I Stood...
restaurant and café
93 photos
food
138 photos
still life
35 photos
windows and doors
45 photos
people
41 photos
trains
17 photos
cars
5 photos
bicycles
10 photos
greeting cards
74 photos
miscellaneous
49 photos
landscape & seascape
244 photos
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995
Kyoto
517 photos
Kyoto in Fall
185 photos
Japan
116 photos, 1 video
Rokasensuisou villa
83 photos
Japanese painter, Shunkyo Yamamoto’s summer home
München & Tegernsee
2 photos
June 2012
Boston ＆New York
1 photo
Feberuary－March 2012
Boston, New York, Concord, Lexington,
Austria
194 photos
Salzburg : Aug.2009, Jul. 2017, Wien: Sept.2009, Sept.2011,
Salzburg and Salzkammergut
8 photos
August 2009, July 2017,
Belgium
67 photos
August 2009
Budapest
3 photos
July 2017
Canada
9 photos
Montreal, October 2013
Česká republika
5 photos
July 2017
Český Krumlov
15 photos
July 2017
England
182 photos
September 2010: London, the Lake District, the Cotswolds,
August 2014： Cambridge, Bath, London,
Kew Gardens
12 photos
August 2014
Cambridge
19 photos
August 2014
London
15 photos
September 2010, August 2014,
France
400 photos
August 2009: Paris,Giverny, September 2010: Paris, May 2015: Monpellier, Avignon, Arles, Paris,
Germany
216 photos
early August~mid-September 2009: Stuttgart, Tubingen, Baden Baden,
September 2010: Stuttgart, Rothenburg,
September 2011: Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Konstanz, Bodensee,
June 2012: Munich,...
Ho Chi Minh
13 photos
2014 September
Italy
6 photos
2009 August: Rome
2019 March: Andalo, Verona, Venezia,
Andalo
3 photos
March 2019
Venice
3 photos
March 2019
Poland
34 photos
November 2015: Rzeszów
July 2017: Warszawa, Kraków and
Wisła
Warszawa, Poland
11 photos
July 2017
Chopin
7 photos
Birthplace in Żelazowa Wola, The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw
Chopin Concerts in the Royal Łazienki
July 2017
Kraków, Poland
5 photos
July 2017
Praha
2 photos
July 2017
Spain
5 photos
July 2013
USA
59 photos, 1 video
March 2010
Portland, Oregon & Berkeley & SF, CA
March 2011
Dallas, TX & Berkeley & SF, CA
February~March 2012
Boston & New York
March 2013
Baltimore, MD...
Boston and vicinity
181 photos
New York, N.Y.
73 photos
from a train window
14 photos
traditional costumes
8 photos
slide show
1 video
Japanese garden, Portland, Oregon, USA
March, 2010
berries and fruits
54 photos
reflections
56 photos
street
4 photos
hotel
3 photos
souvenir
24 photos
night scene
2 photos
macro
59 photos
birds
49 photos
special moment
50 photos
ocean
29 photos
sunset
10 photos
sky and clouds
12 photos
quotes & poems
31 photos
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
ーPlutarch
The poetry of the earth is never dead. ーJohn...
park & botanical gardens
13 photos
symphony garden
1 photo
from my small garden
119 photos
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
- Francis Bacon
A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever!
- anonymous
from my kitchen
13 photos
dollhouse
11 photos
flowers 2023
86 photos
flowers2022
84 photos
flowers 2021
114 photos
flowers 2020
148 photos
flowers 2019
157 photos
flowers 2018
212 photos
flowers 2017
224 photos
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
- William Wordsworth
flowers 2016
269 photos
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
― Okakura Kakuzō, The Book Of Tea
flowers 2015
205 photos
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ～John Ruskin
flowers2014
286 photos
Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts. ~Dodinsky
flowers 2013
209 photos
Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. ～Dr. SunWolf
flowers 2012
236 photos
Earth laughs in flowers. ～Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"
flowers2011
206 photos
Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
～William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798
flowers2010
241 photos, 1 video
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. ～Gerard de Nerval
watercolor
343 photos
Salzburger gebinde und Klosterarbeiten
59 photos
my hobby
1 photo
Gallery Created by Windows Uploadr
flowers No.1
262 photos, 1 video
2008~2010
flowers No.2
750 photos
2010~2013
Flowers...are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor...
archives
3 photos
my dog, Lex
12 photos
1993.8.5~2008.5.14
tilt-shift
5 photos