Lush tobacco plants by the old Rettig tobacco factory at Luostarinmäki (which translates to 'Cloister Hill") museum in Turku, an ol...

Small wooden carts in the gardens of Sagalund. * While in Turku, or Åbo in Swedish, in the southwestern coast of Finland, my parents took u...

Sitting in the shade of the old linden trees by Olle Nyman's atelier at Cafe Koloni in Saltsjö-Duvnäs. I've always been a cafe perso...

Ulf Nordfjell's vegetative spheres built with pratia plants at the main terrace of Millesgården at Lidingö near Stockholm. Since las...

The entrance flower bed as seen from the house towards the drive way. The round stone on the left is a pebble from the nearby beach. No,...

* Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. - Henry James - ...

A fully open Columbia lily, with golden, gracefully curved petals spotted with dark mahogany freckles . * Lilies are out not only in the ga...

The Giant Himalayan lily, Cardiocrinum giganteum, in full bloom beside a velvety Hydrangea aspera at the Bloedel Reserve gardens. I'm so...

The golden, silky petals of a double Icelandic poppy, Papaver nudicaule, almost ready to be carried away by the wind. * After a couple of he...

* As a sad outcome of the recent housing bubble, there are a couple of empty, unfinished houses in my neighborhood, waiting for the good ti...