St Andrews Flower Festival

We can probably all hear Louis Armstrong singing as we read these words:

I see Trees of Green, Red Roses too.

I see them bloom for me and you and I think to myself

what a Wonderful World !

As John Howard Payne wrote, in his opera, Clari, the Maid of Milan, ‘Mid Pleasures and Palaces though we may roam . Be it ever so humble there is no place like Home!’

"Whosoever commands the Trade of the World commands the Riches of the World and hence the World itself" (Sir Walter Raleigh) Our Sovereigns sent out fearless Explorers to discover New Lands and fabulous new Foods and Plants.

Where would the world be today without Literature? The Bible is undisputedly the world’s best read book. It is rich in parables, using everyday things to illustrate a point. i.e. Song of Solomon Chapter 2: ‘For Lo the Winter has passed and the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing of the bird has come.’

Think of the world without any Flowers,

think of a Wood without any Trees.

Think of a sky without any Sunshine,

think of the Air without any Breeze.

We thank you Lord for the Flowers

and Trees and Sunshine .

We Thank you Lord

and Praise your Holy Name.