INDIGO BLUES

Someday

I will learn to dye

and use it

for my indigo color

Wild blue and false indigo, also name Baptisia Australis

RE-VISITING THE PLANTS

A VISIT TO A PLACE I HAVE NOT SEEN


IN SEVEN YEARS...

Gall in oak, as change in physical structure

Oak in gall



Blue steel heron as protector

Trail companion Jeff Zablow, at Adkins Arboretum

Thanks Jeff,  for your company at the Arboretum trails. Searching for butterflies, finding almost none. Endless explorations in botany and wonders.

Orchids



The decomposers

Rattle snake weed

A "planted" tulip poplar flower

South Tuckahoe Valley Trail

Deep tree knees on rock and sand

A red admiral in the North meadow - the only one

and the many orchids...

LIQUIDAMBAR

Liquid amber shooting stars

in the maze of currents and counter-currents

nuclei and auras

liquidambar nature

ave salve
ave salve

LIKENESS

"Always look for likeness..."

said the young Hopi clown priest, dressed in black and white, with splashes of red, yellow and much blue...

EARTH DAY

Today is Micro-moon day,

Earth Day


beginning of Passover


General Prayer Day in Denmark


Saints Tarbula, Parmenius, Opportuna, Bicor



and of course, the Lyrid meteor shower's night.

THE MATING OF CUPIDO COMYNTAS

THE MATING OF CUPIDO COMYNTAS