I could hold no longer

in abeyance my feelings of joy

arrangements for our meeting

made when winter's bite

owned the out of doors

my admiration, an endurng one

for their incomparable beauty

Richmond town and Lewis Ginter's

garden of botanical beauty

June, and I would make my arrival

in the light of mid-morning

essentials camera, pen and pad

my guarded companions

in the garden's heart

a glass conservatory

housing the beauties in natural environs

photographs, one hundred and more

I took with love and care

essential attractions for me

butterflies and orchids

beauties in pastel yellow

flitted and fluttered

like fine silk silhouettes

alighting where they pleased

my hand a place they chose

no more satisfaction that day

was needed by me

that one marvelous event alone

would have left me complete

but now it was

on to the orchids

to sate my camera's lusting desires

if beauty exists more breathtaking

let it be brought forth

for my examination

for gardens of beauties

are an incomparable lot