In Isaiah 35:1, the Bible says:
"The wilderness and parched land will be glad:
And the desert-plain will rejoice and blossom."
These passages originally spoke of a spiritual blossoming with Messiah's coming. Secondarily, they hint at the perfection of the natural world in the recreation to come in heaven.
We are seeing a somewhat more literal version of this in our own backyard this spring. This is a mixture of area wildflowers and cultivars from elsewhere. Enjoy!
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Common Poppy
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Shirley Poppy?
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| Larkspur & California Poppy | | | | | |
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African Daisies
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| Phlox & Wood Sorrel (one of many things called "shamrock") |
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Snap Dragons
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Prickly Pear
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Drought Resistant Pine (Canary Island Pine?)
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| Black eye Susan with Bachelor's Button |
Black-eye Susans are my favorite flower. They are native to the Midwestern US. After many years of trying, I got them (with God's help!) to come up here last year. The above photo was about to open when I first posted. Now it has, with more to come. Below is a link to a poem I wrote about Black-eye Susans.
Black-Eyed Susan (poem)
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2 comments:
Glad to see the blossoms flourishing; some times of refreshing must have come!
Thanks for checking in. We have been a little cooler this year, not reaching the "100s" Fahrenheit yet. (38 Celsius, and we get above that. Quite frequently up to 46 Celsius.)
The rain has been sluggish, but we have low water use irrigation that we use judiciously.
God will make it all right in the next life, though. The desert will blossom, in our hearts and in the perfection restoration of creation around us.
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