I took this picture during our camping trip this summer. I’m not a flower expert but if I see something that appeals to me I focus and shoot. However, after showing my pics to a friend who grew up in the area we were visiting, she informed me that this flower was used by the First Nations People to make red paint. Suddenly the flower looks so much more interesting!
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. ~Nadine Stair
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
Henry David Thoreau
Budded at least a week ago and I was looking forward to beautiful peonies. Finally peonies bloomed this week and it’s been raining cats and dogs. After work today I ran out and cut all the flowers off the peony bush and saved them from a frightful fate!
The bee emerging from deep within the peony departs reluctantly
Basho Matsuo
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