Today I’m grateful that my understanding of the beauty around me has been expanded by a friend of mine who’s something of an expert on wildflowers.
It’s kind of easy to ignore wildflowers because
they tend to be outnumbered or shoved out of sight by cultivated flowers and
shrubs. Also, in my view, they seem to be mostly small and low to the ground.
But a few weeks ago on one of my #tulipmania
forays into the District They Call Columbia, I was introduced to Virginia
bluebells, which are (as you might expect) mostly blue bell-shaped flowers. But
imagine my surprise a week or so later to discover a patch of bluebells right
down the block from me, in a park.
They’re gorgeous, and I’m grateful I now know
what they are and where to look for them.
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