246/365: purple woods aster
Walking through the summer woods is a largely monochromatic experience. Green on green. Any other color really stands out.
I’m happy either way: I never tire of the infinite shades and textures of the leaves but the surprise of a wildflower is always welcome.
236/365: passion flower
Plants are sexy.
219/365: belles fleurs
Just another tough day of work…can I do this every day? Flowers by Jodi Irwin – Acanthus Floral Art.
Few things are more delicate, fresh, and lovely than raindrops on petals (roses or otherwise). There’s also a depth to the light that emerges after a storm – a softness and subtlety that brings out the richness of colors more than sunshine ever could.
144/365: iris
The pasque flower or anemone patens is the state flower of South Dakota. As its latin name tells us, the flower spreads its seeds on the wind. A cherished symbol of spring, it often emerges through the snow to signal winter’s end.
104/365: pasque flowers
When I was a little girl, this was my favorite color and I called it POYPUL 🙂
I’ve enjoyed this rainbow-colored creative exercise so much over the past week that I’m thinking of making it a seasonal thing; I’m enchanted by the idea that, by summer, I’ll be able to discover all seven gorgeous hues in natural forms.
12/365: violet spiral
Each time I visit the prairie garden, something new is in bloom. On this day, the wild indigo was just beginning to open. Like fingertips to the sky, the emergent blooms remind me of a good, whole-body stretch, reaching, reaching. There is a sense of potential, of surging wild and pulsing indigo on the rise.
158/365: wild indigo
One of the things I like to do is look up common names of flowers. The early spring prairie blooms I’ve always called pasque flowers have many more poetic and evocative names: wind flower, prairie crocus, meadow anemone. What’s in a name? Maybe. But I think I’ll call these beauties wind flowers from now on.
134/365: pasque flowers
A guessing game, if you’d like…what do you think this is? I’m not looking for “bubbles” as an answer…
120/365: purple bubbles
Mom to the rescue again! She showed up yesterday with a 6-pack of pansies ready for planting!
Snowy spring be damned. These babies can take it.
113/365: purple pansies
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