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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Oddly Beautiful

Flowers are often assumed to only have bright or pastel colouring.
Such common knowledge was challenged by this stunning black flower.

The oddest that I’d seen were flowers in shades of green yet, the strangest, and oddly very beautiful, are the black flowers - which are not really black.

Deep purple, chocolate brown or other deep shades and tones.
Growing in one of Beacon Hill Park’s many flower gardens last summer was this Zwartkop multi branching Succulent - at first just strange to my eyes, yet as I’ve looked at this picture, very striking.

Knowledge is a feature of familial, community and cultural security, branching from many previous years of experience and study of our parents and ancestors.

Growth and change continues in tandem with each life experience.
Ethics, morals and practices, mostly beautiful and many times different, develop outside of the norms we have known.
The perception of the new, strange and oddly beautiful takes time to develop.

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
~ Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost




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