Delicate prairie flowers display
shades of whites and pinks.
But not this brilliant Bergenia
with clusters of tiny magenta flowers standing tall, guarded by broad leathery leaves
~ a real show off!
“Flowers don’t tell, they show.”
~ Stephanie Skeem, author of Flotsam
fragrant pink petals
ignore the soggy wind.
“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance;
you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
~ Michel Onfray, philosopher
Dry earth soaks in cold rain,
while leaves shelter raindrops
adrift in the wind.
“We’re as ephemeral as raindrops.
We all fall, and we all land somewhere.”
~ Robert Charles Wilson, author
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| Mayday Prunus at Innovation Centre, University of Regina |
white blossoms burst
while gray clouds
gentle the earth with raindrops
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child
that knows poems by heart.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Redolent blossoms
shyly open,
deny the dust of the street
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
~ Lady Bird Johnson
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| Temps today 30 Centigrade |
Sturdy pasque-flowers bow their heads until bright yellow stamens laden with pollen welcome early season bees.
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| Temps today 30 Centigrade |
“The chance to find a pasque-flower
is a right as
inalienable as free speech.”
~ Aldo Leopold, A San County Almanac
Photographed by this author today at University of Regina (gardens outside the Research Center)
Provincial flower of Manitoba
State flower of North Dakota
the manner of your death
but by the entirety of your life.
Each stitch and thread
I cannot know, but I do know
that there was joy and much hard
work with little real rest.
Those times when you were lost
the bread still got baked,
the kids off to school.
Were you perfect?
No. You were as human as us all.
Do I have you on a pedestal?
In my child’s eyes, I may have, but
with the supposed wisdom of my 77 years,
I’ve allowed you to come down to earth
where you can be loved just as you were.
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
~ Socrates
