#333 - Light and Shadow on Wild Geranium

I loved the way the light was casting shadows of the long, curving stamens on these Wild Geranium flowers, and, when I put them in the sun, it shone through the tissue-thin petals showing near-transparent veins. Simply breathtaking.

#332 - Tufted Vetch

I love these tiny purple-blue flowers that sit in the tall grasses like miniscule perching birds. They look so vibrant and exotic against the green.

# 331 - Green alkanet in the rain

Beautiful blue flowers in the rain. Blue makes me happy!

#330 - Dog-rose in Sunlight

I was meditating last week on something written by St. Irenaeus of Lyons:“The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” 

Seeing these roses in the sun brought the words to my mind again, "fully alive" - because, opening their petals wide into the afternoon light, they looked so unashamedly life-full, so unabashedly vital. It was somehow moving and challenging at the same time. 

#329 - Buttercup and Grass Vetchling

A sunny picture from a couple of days ago. This makes me think of happy summer days in the park and the smell of mown grass. Buttercups do hold the light so beautifully...

#328 - Blue

And how can you begin to describe this blue? The indigo/purple of high summer skies on clear nights. I remember, in my student days, slipping out into the darkness and walking the city streets just to be out under such skies.

#327 - Meadow Buttercup

"This was the best of May - the small brown birds
Wisely reiterating endlessly
What no man learnt yet, in or out of school"
(Edward Thomas - Sedge-warblers)