Two heads are better than one, so the saying goes.
This odd-looking lupine is about to find out.
Moral: There’s more than one way to get through life.
Split Personality
Tag: flower
Orange Blossom Special
Beauty tells its own story.
Prequel
Prequel: that which comes before.
Blossoms foretell the arrival of wild strawberries.
Sweet. Tiny. Eye-catchingly red — that is if you’re mouse size and living at ground level.
For me, not so easy to spot.
But worth the hunt.
Wild strawberry Fragaria glauca
Closed on Account of Weather
Another spring storm.
Heavy snow shuts down the garden.
Underneath — the lilac holds her perfumed breath.
Tall Bluebells
Not many flowers in bloom yet, besides dandelions and wild strawberries.
I was delighted to spot these little rain-bedecked blossoms on the edge of the woods.
Bright blue flowers on a drooping stem.
Depending on where you live, you might know this plant as northern bells, chiming bells or tall lungwort.
Tall bluebells Mertenisa paniculata
Back in Business
So. It rained. It snowed. It weighed you down.
Life does that sometimes. Things look bleak when you’ve done a face plant.
But then the sun came out.
Now look at you. Bright and sassy and saying hello to the bees again.
Snow Coat
Thistledown
A bitter wind sent me seeking shelter in a sparse clump of trees.
I stop in a patch of last summer’s thistles.
Flattened by hooves and winter snow, wispy white flower heads survive.
Potential
Dry spring this year.
Even grass is slow to poke its way out of the ground.
It should take a lesson from the narcissus — forge ahead, even if the odds aren’t in your favour. Get on with life.
