“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”
― Walt Whitman
Rose Swamp Mallow
Tag: flowers
Mimosa Pudica
“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
Deer Tongue
Seaside Primrose Willow
White Peacock Butterfly
Swallow Tail Butterfly
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.
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.
“The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.”
― Emily Dickinson
Purple
“Though it may never come again is what makes it so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson
Picture This by Frank 