Flowers Are Bursting!

Now that Ohio seems to be on a reprieve from being in a Pacific- Northwest look-alike contest, everything is bursting open everywhere in profuse and cascading colors, rippling through the city leaving a constant memory of rain.
A few days ago I thought to myself that I would be very content to just do things ( art, reading, walking, bicycling, gardening, playing and listening to music, making medicine) while writing about it and taking pictures , for well, the rest of my life. Doi.
I haven't had the time or wireless access to feed this blogthang lately but I had been finding myself just posting the flowers that I have been seeing in my world.
I have seen many, many more as I have been working in a big box store garden center, but nothing compares to coming upon a flower in the wild, on a street corner, a downtown round container/planter or in the retreat of my childhood backyard and being completely floored with awe and beauty.
I hope to post more as time allows but have always understood what Georgia O'Keeffe saw in every flower that served as a model for her paintings .
There is so much that want to write about now and hopefully it will all come through in time, if time allows.

May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.
Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher