I’ve never seen a mariposa lily growing uphill from a stone. Uphill from a sagebrush, yes, but not a stone.
They need well-drained soil, which means they grow best where water, snow and wind have laid fine soil down as it drifts around. In other words, each lily is a tide pool, or a grain of gold, laid down in the dry, dry grass. Let’s look closer.
Ah, gold it is. So, remember. If you want lilies, plant a stone or a sagebrush, and wait.
The miners will come. Sure, you won’t be first, but …
… that’s ok, isn’t it?
Categories: Endangered species, flower gardening, Gaia, Grasslands, Light, Nature Photography, Other People, Spirit, Sun
Beautiful, the “grain of gold” with the flower that seems to be dancing over the greyish ground.
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They do dance! You have that right for sure. Bee are real trapeze artists up there.
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It takes patience to capture images of insects inside flowers, in my experience — it’s a quality rare today.
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It’s well worth the effort! 🙂 The insect becomes the attention, realized. And there we are together. Very cool. I have learned that when one is familiar with flowers, difference draws the eye. The flowers worthy of attention are easier to find if the attention has been given over a long time. Neat!
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The words “. . . attention given over a long time” reminds me that ten years of observation went into your book “Winging Home: A Palette of Birds” (recently read: thoroughly engaging entryway into the ways of nature). . . . Here is one of my successes: the bee is calm, but the whorls in the echinacea blossom make one dizzy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/neallcalvert/36893213481/in/album-72157625169013107/
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Dizzy for sure! Glad you liked the book. >
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Well worth the time. The insect becomes the attenti
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