“Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.” – Denholm Elliott
Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/surprise?page=5
Cluster
Category: plants
Sedges Have Edges
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”- Vivian Greene
Title from a plant ID rhyme “Sedges have edges; rushes are round; grasses are hollow right up from the ground”. While not always true – often times it plays in my head as I walk around.
Vivian Greene quote found at cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quote.html.
Young Branch
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” – John Burroughs
Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43560.John_Burroughs
Common Tickseed
“I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous. I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can’t fathom. ” – Richelle E. Goodrich
I don’t like it when the word common is used in the descriptor for something this beautiful.
Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/uncommon
Morning Light
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
Quote found at http://www.wakeupcloud.com/77-great-quotes/
Shoestring Fern
“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.” – Carl von Clausewitz
I’m trying to catalog the flora and fauna of Mullet Lake Park and came across this guy – is it a shoestring fern or a wild pine? I will have to wait until it flowers to tell for sure. In either case it is an epiphyte living on this palm tree.
Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/uncertainty?page=2
Wildflower
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”- Maya Angelou
Quote found at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html
Showy Rattlebox
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson
The Showy Rattlebox (Crotalaria spectabilis) in a non native species in the pea family. Brought over from Europe to serve as a cover and nitrogen fixing plant in the southern US.
Quote found at http://ecosalon.com/40-quotes-on-new-beginnings-starts/
Close Up
“Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.” – The XIVth Dalai Lama
Quote found at http://www.wagingpeace.org/issues/peace/peace-quotes/
American Black Nightshade
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
Quote found at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/peace?page=2
Picture This by Frank 