To know the change and feel it...

Claude Monet, 'La Cabane à Trouville, marée basse'


Vincent van Gogh, 'Green Wheat Fields'


'Bumblebee hives in a cottage garden'

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the riot of spring flowers,   

he gazes forward to the city in the distance—always   

the same bountiful smile upon his portly face.   

Why don’t I share his one-minded happiness?   

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Lucy Grossmith, 'Rose Cottage'

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The pear blossom, the crimson-petaled magnolia,   

filling me instead with a mixture of nostalgia   

and yearning.  He’s laughing at me, isn’t he? 

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Erin Hanson, 'Hills of Wine'


Henri-Edmond Cross, 'River in Saint-Clair'


Claude Monet


James Edward Hervey MacDonald


'Meadow'


Fidelia Bridges, 'Lily Pads and Barn Swallows'

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The seasons wheeling despite my photographs   

and notes, my desire to make them pause.   

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John Peter Russell, 'In the morning'

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Is that the lesson?  That stasis, this holding on,   

is not life?  Now I’m smiling, too—the late cherry,   

its soft pink blossoms already beginning to scatter;   

the trillium, its three-petaled white flowers   

exquisitely tinged with purple as they fall.   

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Alexi Zaitsev "Evening in Normandy"

Irisney Bosco , 'à sombra da parreira'


Claude Monet


Mamontov Mikhail Anatolyevich, 'In the Garden'


Pascal Baudot


Arthur Lismer, 'Lilac Time'


'Balade en Provence '


Pascal Baudot, 'Souvenir de Bretagne'



Camille Corot


Claude Monet, 'Evening At Argenteuil'


George Clausen, 'Souvenir of Marlow Regatta'


Charles Wysocki
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"To know the change and feel it, When there is none to heal it, 

  Nor numbed sense to steal it, Was never said in rhyme."

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title and last line - John Keats, from «Stanzas»

all other lines from poem «The Garden Buddha by»  Peter Pereira