Here is some beauty, representatives of the Life principle. A few of these plants are Ashwagandha, which I'm looking forward to bringing to seed and also making tincture from.
I'm back home from my travels, but thought I'd share a photo I took in the airport courtyard while waiting to board the plane. I don't know what it is other than beautiful.
I love that lupine photo. It reminds me of reading Cicero, the ancient Roman scholar, writing about how it had long been known (2000yrs ago) that land let to go fallow with lupine will make it better for subsequent farming. I like to remove ones from backcountry roads that will inevitably be crushed or killed by regrading and plant them amongst my food forest and garden.
I also agree the purple fiddleneck flower looks like phacelia to me. This has been a great cover crop-biomass accumulator-pollinator plant for me. It's been shown to produce as much biomass in its native Pacific NW climate as any other cover crop in a single year on recently disturbed soil.
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I don't have any recent flower pictures, so here's a gratuitious pyrenees-pyramid peak picture (Mt Jefferson in background behind backcountry Willie)
This is all just my opinion based on a flawed memory
There are so many colours outside right now that it is hard to choose!
Here is little plant that many consider a weed but I think it looks stunning (Hieracium aurantiacum, don't know the English name).
Currently I have none in my own garden but I will try to give it a place somewhere. Insects love it!
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Hieracium aurantiacum
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. (E.E.Hale)
My task today has been to find beauty in places where I don't like being--hospital, supermarket, waiting for a taxi on a city street...and I think I succeeded!
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"... And being swept along is not enough." R.M. Rilke
Those are the largest trousers in the world! Especially when next to this ad:
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