good medicine

251/365: painted lady fern

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

 – John Burroughs

05.21.13 foliage fetish

As much as I love flowers, it’s the foliage that really gets me. I like a good leaf and rainbow of green hues. That’s why our woodland garden – full of hostas and ferns – gets more TLC than the others; the luscious unfurling of the fresh fronds is my love’s reward.

141/365: fern fronds unfurling