“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me”
― Walt Whitman
Mimosa Pudica
Category: inspiration
Solitary
“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
― Walt Whitman
Osprey
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman
Along the St Johns
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman
Peruvian Primrose
“Human Subtlety… will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous” Leonardo da Vinci
Deer Tongue
Carolina Wild Petunia
“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose…” – Walt Whitman – Song of the Open Road – thanks to Chris Highland – Meditations of Walt Whitman.
Greens
A pic from the past.
The Eyes Have It
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
― Suzy Kassem
Gaillardia pulchella
“Forever is composed of nows”
― Emily Dickinson
My favorite wildflower – I’ve made it almost 3 weeks without posting one. |:>). This time of year, Black Point Drive (a wildlife drive in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge) is lined with them.
Picture This by Frank 