Saturday, April 13, 2013

Flowers Are Poetic, Too!

[wildflowers of Central Texas.  April, 2013]
 
Texas Bluebonnets &
Indian Paintbrush



 


Indian Blankets, Vervain & Mexican Four o'clock

 
Mexican Four o' Clocks with Vervains (verbena)
 




Evening Primrose

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Field Trip

Texas Bluebonnets (related to western Lupines)
[Biblical Poetry]

"Man, born of woman,
    is of few days, full of turmoil.
As a flower he springs forth
    and fades away,
And as a fleeting shadow,
    he does not last."  (Job 14: 1-2)  
They are in the morning
    as new grass which springs up.
In the morning it springs and grows;
    in the evening it withers and dries out. --Moses (Psalm 90:5b-6)
"A voice says, 'Cry out!'
And I said, 'What shall I cry?'                  
[God replies]:
'All flesh is green grass
And all its loveliness as the flower of the field...
The grass withers, the flower fades.
But the Word of God shall stand forever.' " (Isaiah 40:6, 8)


Indian Paintbrushes (Texas style)