In Romans 8:18-23, St. Paul wrote about how all creation was subjected to futility, to frustration, not because it did anything wrong, but because God decreed it. (See Genesis chapter 3 where the very ground was cursed because of humanity's sin. Sinful humanity could not be allowed to live on in an otherwise perfect creation.) Paul talks of creation groaning as if in labor pains, waiting to be set free.
Over the past 2 years, I have finally gotten my favorite flower, black-eyed Susans, to grow here, though outside of its range. This year, however, one of the plants is putting out some freakish flowers with multi fused heads. Below are photos of one with three fused heads developing.
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| open with some "normal" heads |
These links will provide you other black-eyed Susan photos and a poem I wrote about black-eyed Susans a couple years ago.
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