John Shawler: Rose Festival Entrance
John Shawler: Dove
John Shawler: Cupid
John Shawler: The Rose Festival coincided with the Ulsan Environmental Festival
John Shawler: Indoor plant exhibit.
John Shawler: I wanted to buy this one for my apartment.
John Shawler: The blossoms on this one were really unique. Like Blue Bells, but pink.
John Shawler: Korean bonsai.
John Shawler: Each rose had a little plaque explaining its origin.
John Shawler: “How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Shawler: "But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose." - Anne Bronte
John Shawler: "Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower." - William C. Bryant
John Shawler: "We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves." - Clive Bell
John Shawler: "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true." - Ray Evans
John Shawler: "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
John Shawler: Whale
John Shawler: "And she was fair as is the rose in May." - Geoffrey Chaucer
John Shawler: "Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." - W. Somerset Maugham
John Shawler: An aspiring photographer
John Shawler: "But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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John Shawler: Promoting next month's potter festival.
John Shawler: Main stage of the Ulsan Environmental Fair.
John Shawler: Multicolor
John Shawler: Flowers beside the butterfly garden.
John Shawler: Where can we live?
John Shawler: Some kind of inflatable plastic mountain for the kids to play on.
John Shawler: Kids Playground