Showing posts with label purple flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purple flowers. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2013

May Day, May Day

On a whim, 



coming home from work on May Day, 


I pulled over


and photographed the wildflowers 


waving to me from the roadside.


The next day, 


the roadside had been freshly mown. 



I'm so grateful I listen to whims.


Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Colors of Autumn

After a dull, dry summer that followed a near-flowerless spring, these splashes of color in the Hollow, washed in autumn's golden light...

Sigh. 

They make my soul sing.




Chrysanthemums, splashes of yellow and red to welcome my guests... courtesy of my sweet friend Rae.



A stray leaf, just a splash of orange on the dirt road.


Young acorns, splashes of green and symbols of hope for the squirrels.



From green to deep orange in the blink of an eye - no middle ground here.



Wildflowers, splashes of purple, color of spring and autumn. 
Color of transition.


Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot
English novelist and journalist, 19th century

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Wing and Blossom... peeking, posing, proliferating

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. 
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. 
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. 
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Peeking...


One of the visitors to our feeders... not as shy as the cardinals.



Posing...


A blue dragonfly finally visited Long Hollow... 
...he graciously, patiently posed for me.






Proliferating...


My mysterious, wild, blooming-like-crazy purple flowers - if anyone knows what they are, please tell me!
They're already starting to fade into their reddish foliage...
...very autumn-like and beautiful itself...

so I apologize in advance if the balance of my photos tip in their favor.
It's so I can remember them when they're gone.
(And also because it's easier to share them all than to decide which ones not to share.)