Rough-fruited Cinquefoil

~ Rough-fruited Cinquefoil ~ 

June Wildflower 

The petals remind me of little hearts.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. 

Leave people better than you found them.

― Marvin J. Ashton 

Join The Dance

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

~ Alan Watts

Butterfly "dances" in the Ground Ivy Wildflowers.

The Artistic Print Available
Here  

 

Unfold and Expand

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

 ~ Brenda Ueland

Spring Blooms

Common Field Speedwell

A weed is but an unloved flower.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This one was a hard one to ID - and I am not positive I have it right.

It grows close to the ground and is a TINY bloom.  

Viper's Bugloss: Blueweed

There is so much beauty in the world, but you must allow yourself to see it.

― Tom Giaquinto

My trusty Field Guide to Wildflowers tells me this flowers from June to October.

This image was taken in June.  This is a Tall plant and grows from 1 to 2 1/2 feet tall. 

Nightshade

Before the beginning of years 

There came to the making of man 

Time, with a gift of tears; 

Grief, with a glass that ran; 

Pleasure, with pain for leaven; 

Summer, with flowers that fell; 

Remembrance, fallen from heaven, 

And madness risen from hell; 

Strength without hands to smite; 

Love that endures for a breath; 

Night, the shadow of light, 

 And Life, the shadow of death.

~Algernon Charles Swinburne

This is my first time reading anything by this author and I think I could probably read this poem for years and find something "revealing" in it each time I read it.  Sometimes it's like that .... sometimes things just speak to me... is it ever that way with you?

The image is that of the Nightshade family of wildflowers.  My Field Guide to Wildflowers tells me it's called by several names:

Climbing Nightshade, Bittersweet Nightshade and Deadly Nightshade. 

Print Available - HERE 

 

Southern Gaura Wildflower - Bee Blossom

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.

~ B.B. King

I'm learning a lot pouring over my Field Guide to Wildflowers 

 I believe I've got this one figured out as Southern Gaura 

also known as Southern Bee Blossom.

If I'm wrong - please let me know!

Purple Deadnettle

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

~  Frederick Douglass

Everything Is Possible

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

~ Bloodroot Wildflower ~  


 More of My Wildflower Images - HERE