Flower stages

These too are of a burning color–not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies. ~John Steinbeck When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches…

Wednesday Green

Yes, is there anything more refreshing? Green plants, green leaves, tiny buds starting to bloom! And amazing as it is, we got rain again this morning! I’m not noticing the variety of wild flowers that I saw last spring after our rainy 2019, but everything is sprouting something, and a lot of it is green….

Tuesday’s Flower

I believe this to be the Desert Thorn-apple (Datura discolor). I will be watching for it to open over the next couple of days. According to Wikipedia, all parts of this plant contain a mix of alkaloids that are potentially lethal when enough is ingested. Deaths from careless recreational use of Datura and related plants…

Silent Sunday

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” ~ Pablo Picasso

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge- On the Water

John hosts the LAPC challenge this week with the theme “On the Water”. I just love to review photos of past adventures so I decided to look through my photos from our Florida trip last fall and see what I could find “On the Water”. The photos below are all from Panama City Beach, FL…