Blossoms, Blooms and Scenes

By Bill Davis and Charles Hays

The main features of our book involve Mother Nature and the natural wonders of the world, especially the flowers, blooms, and scenes of many national parks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Apr 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466989351

Bill Davis

Born in Midland, Texas. Lived in Midland until 1964 when my family moved to Arlington, Texas. Graduated from Sam Houston High School in 1969. Joined the Navy immediately after graduation and served for 11 months and six days- received an honorable discharge. Married Shirley Ann Carver October 25, 1974 in Arlington, Texas.Attended Tarrant County Junior College and received an Associate Degree in Electronics Communication Technology. Hired by General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas June 1978. The wife and I moved to Azle, Texas in April 1979. Worked at this location for 29 years and 10 months retiring from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Fort Worth as a Hardware Engineer Sr, MCSE with a BSIT. Enrolled by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota in 2006 as 1/8th Lakota. Hired as Church Administrator at the Lighthouse Church in Azle, Texas April 2008. Published best seller "The Cowboy Chronicles" December 23, 2009

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Copyright 2013 Bill Davis And Charles Hays.

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Created in the United States of America.

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978-1-4669-8936-8 (sc)

978-1-4669-8935-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013907602

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Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Blossoms

And Blooms

Scenes

DEDICATION

This book we dedicate to ourselves and to each other, Bill Davis, as the artist and Charles Hays as the essayist. Bill searched the outback for many seasons to provide this beautiful collection of pictures that entitle him to be known as the uncontested ‘Lord of The Pixels’. You haven’t seen high quality photographs until you have seen his. In this edition of ‘Blossoms, Blooms and Scenes’ we offer you the best that our combined talents can offer. Unfortunately, when photos are subsequently copied, a little contrast is lost.

Our intention is to produce a high quality picture book that everyone of all ages will enjoy. We hope that the next time you visit your dentist, you will see a copy of our book lying on the coffee table in the waiting room. You can look at our pictures and, temporarily, forget all about what might be coming, another painful visit to the Dentist’s chair. Our regards, respects and best wishes to all. We have done our best to entertain you and we hope that we have made your day a more pleasant one.

FOREWORD

In any undertaking like this there is always the chance that we have offended someone somewhere. It is difficult climbing over fences and entering the farms of our friendly neighbors. But, rest assured, that some farmer will be angry at us because we didn’t give his flowers an appropriate credit. Instead of mentioning Montana or some other place like that, there are certain farm owners that might prefer credits of the following type: ‘Taken on the farm of Arbitus G. Frothingham on Rural Route 4 in Debbyville, the county seat of Durant, Alaska.’ Now, I ask you to please think of all the trees that we have saved because we have used less paper. Ours is not to offend, ours is to somehow reach the end.

With that in mind and with all due consideration for the legalistics of these modern times, please be advised that we did not knowingly want to offend anybody. And, if we did hurt someone’s feelings, it’s purely a matter of probability and chance. It was definitely not our intention. With that being said, it is now legally safe for you to buy our book. You are hereby legally protected to do so.

Blossoms

And Blooms

(Part One)

TULIPIA GESNERIANA

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TULIPS OF SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT AGES

This stunning flower is a perennial favorite that features 109 different species and they each belong to the Family known as Liliaceae. They are prominent from Western Europe to the highlands of China. And, hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens or potted plants. If compared to our own species, they would have to be likened to our attractive females, not our ugly men. And, if you listen to them on a day of no ill wind, you can almost hear them whisper, I don’t like that one with variegated colors. She’s got the tulip breaking virus and I am highly susceptible to TBV. Let’s close up our pedals and maybe she won’t notice us.

MORAL: Never catch a dreaded virus.

LILIACEAE

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A VARIEGATED MARTAGON LILY

Here, we have a lovely example of the variegated lily, also known as the ‘Turk’s cap lily’. At least, that’s what you call it when you are not too sure of your classification skills. Sometimes, I prefer to call this one what my father said it was. He would take one look at my favorite lily and quickly say something of this order, That flower is too pretty to buy. If we take it home, Mom will just kill it by forgetting to water it. Or, he would say, "We can’t buy that flower, it’s priced for one of two richer families in town, maybe, the Gorman’s or the Daniels’s.

MORAL: Never buy a banker’s favorite flower.

GARDEN PEPPERS (Mixed Variety)

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RED AND YELLOW TYPE

Poets say that opposites attract and likes repel.

I saw that in my marriage with my dear departed Dorothy.

We were as different as two people could be yet we forged a marriage that lasted fifty-four splendid years. And, this is another observation of the good life for the world around us.

Racism seems to appear in all breeds or varieties.

I can just barely decipher what the ‘red pepper’

is saying to the ‘yellow pepper’. "Boy, don’t you turn your

back to me. That’s just plain insolent and I won’t

stand for it" To which the