the darling buds of May~

 Photos taken during the Santa Barbara (Carpenteria to be exact) trip just this last weekend. Had fun walking through the greenhouses. This Sonnet keeps popping into my head in the middle of editing:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
   So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Thank you, Mr. Shakespeare. Have always loved this Sonnet. 

Roses - overrated if you ask me but the colors stand out on this one.

minus my other half at the moment. Miss you!

Looking straight down into the flowing stream. Love the texture and colors.