Keepers

It Will Flame Out

Sorbus aucuparia (the mountain ash).  One is near my house and I chanced to see it the other day.  What luxurious fruit it bears!

And for all this, nature is never spent.  (God's Grandeur, G.M. Hopkins)

Lessons from a Dragonfly

Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH, July 20, 2011

Lessons from a Dragonfly

A dragonfly accepts it’s brevity of life
With its gossamer wings feeling the breeze -

By Ruth O'Neill

Tennyson's Flower

Flower in the crannied wall,   
I pluck you out of the crannies,   
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,   
Little flower—but if I could understand   
What you are, root and all, and all in all,        
I should know what God and man is.   

Tennyson  (1809–92)

photo taken on walk to work, July 2011

Humble Bloom

 

from Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard