BLOG Blog RSS Flowers Arthur Simpkins 8/20/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 8/20/23 Sunflower View fullsize Sunflower, New Westminster, B.C., August 20, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreSunflowersFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 5/28/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 5/28/23 California poppies California poppies | Eschscholzia californica and visitor, New Westminster, B.C., May 24, 2023 See morePoppiesFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/29/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/29/23 Tulipa gesneriana L. | Didier's tulip View fullsize Tulipa gesneriana L. | Didier's tulip, New Westminster, B.C., April 25, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreTulipsFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Daffodils View fullsize Daffodils, New Westminster, B.C., April 5, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreDaffoldilsFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Hyacinthus orientalis View fullsize Hyacinthus orientalis, New Westminster, B.C., April 5, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreHyacinthsFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/23/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/23/23 Crocus tommasinianus | Early crocus View fullsize Crocus tommasinianus | Early crocus, New Westminster, B.C., March 23, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreCrocusesFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/21/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/21/23 Crocus vernus | Spring Crocus View fullsize Crocus vernus | Spring Crocus, New Westminster, B.C., March 20, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreCrocusFlowersFlowers projectSpringArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/20/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/20/23 Crocus chrysantus | Golden crocus | Snow crocus View fullsize Crocus chrysantus | Golden crocus | Snow crocus, New Westminster, B.C., March 20, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreFlowers projectFlower photographySpringArchives Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 New England Aster View fullsize New England Aster, New Westminster, B.C., October 17, 2022Click image for lightbox. See moreFlowersFlowers projectNature Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 Still Life View fullsize Flowers, New Westminster, B.C., October 17, 2022Click image for lightbox. See moreFlowersFlowers projectNature Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/17/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/17/22 Dylan Thomas View fullsize Sunflowers, New Westminster, B.C., October 17, 2022Click image for lightbox. Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height,Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" See moreSunflowersFlowers projectFlower photographyPoetry Read More Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/9/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/9/22 Brugmansia View fullsize Brugmansia (a.k.a. Angel's Trumpet), New Westminster, B.C., October 9, 2022Click image for lightbox. The grass flames up on the hillsides like a spring fire — “et primitus oritur herba imbribus primoribus evocata” — as if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun; not yellow but green is the color of its flame; — the symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year’s hay with the fresh life below. It grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground. It is almost identical with that, for in the growing days of June, when the rills are dry, the grass-blades are their channels, and from year to year the herds drink at this perennial green stream, and the mower draws from it betimes their winter supply. So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" See moreFlowers projectFlowersNatureNatural Read More Older Posts
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 8/20/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 8/20/23 Sunflower View fullsize Sunflower, New Westminster, B.C., August 20, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreSunflowersFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 5/28/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 5/28/23 California poppies California poppies | Eschscholzia californica and visitor, New Westminster, B.C., May 24, 2023 See morePoppiesFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/29/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/29/23 Tulipa gesneriana L. | Didier's tulip View fullsize Tulipa gesneriana L. | Didier's tulip, New Westminster, B.C., April 25, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreTulipsFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Daffodils View fullsize Daffodils, New Westminster, B.C., April 5, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreDaffoldilsFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 4/5/23 Hyacinthus orientalis View fullsize Hyacinthus orientalis, New Westminster, B.C., April 5, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreHyacinthsFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/23/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/23/23 Crocus tommasinianus | Early crocus View fullsize Crocus tommasinianus | Early crocus, New Westminster, B.C., March 23, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreCrocusesFlowers projectFlower photographyArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/21/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/21/23 Crocus vernus | Spring Crocus View fullsize Crocus vernus | Spring Crocus, New Westminster, B.C., March 20, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreCrocusFlowersFlowers projectSpringArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/20/23 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 3/20/23 Crocus chrysantus | Golden crocus | Snow crocus View fullsize Crocus chrysantus | Golden crocus | Snow crocus, New Westminster, B.C., March 20, 2023Click image for lightbox. See moreFlowers projectFlower photographySpringArchives Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 New England Aster View fullsize New England Aster, New Westminster, B.C., October 17, 2022Click image for lightbox. See moreFlowersFlowers projectNature Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/18/22 Still Life View fullsize Flowers, New Westminster, B.C., October 17, 2022Click image for lightbox. See moreFlowersFlowers projectNature Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/17/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/17/22 Dylan Thomas View fullsize Sunflowers, New Westminster, B.C., October 17, 2022Click image for lightbox. Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height,Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" See moreSunflowersFlowers projectFlower photographyPoetry Read More
Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/9/22 Flowers Arthur Simpkins 10/9/22 Brugmansia View fullsize Brugmansia (a.k.a. Angel's Trumpet), New Westminster, B.C., October 9, 2022Click image for lightbox. The grass flames up on the hillsides like a spring fire — “et primitus oritur herba imbribus primoribus evocata” — as if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun; not yellow but green is the color of its flame; — the symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year’s hay with the fresh life below. It grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground. It is almost identical with that, for in the growing days of June, when the rills are dry, the grass-blades are their channels, and from year to year the herds drink at this perennial green stream, and the mower draws from it betimes their winter supply. So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" See moreFlowers projectFlowersNatureNatural Read More