Some botanicals
Delicate Details
Look closely. What do you notice? As the flowers start to lose their petals, can you see those little bulbs or rockets that will turn into their fruit? After the showy, bright bits are gone, the plant keeps developing, moving on to the next stage of a healthy life. I’m sure there’s some kind of wonderful metaphor for our personal reflection here at the time of the summer solstice.
I’ll be thinking about the year so far, what’s to come, and what I can learn from my fellow beings, the plants.
Rose hips after the petals are gone. Scraggly filaments remain around the centre of what was the flower and a round green ball is growing behind the sepals.
Pale purple 4-petaled flowers in a cluster dotted with tiny water droplets.
California poppy flowers early in the morning before their petals open are interspersed with little green rocket shapes which are the plant gone to fruit.
A pink rose with petals overlapping and a centre that looks like golden fireworks among green leaves.
The undersides of curling fern leaves look like enamel jewelry in shades of brown, gold, and green.
A cluster of palest pink onion flowers, some open and some still buds.
What are you thinking about this solstice?
Do you have a mid-year meditation? Thinking about the joys of summer? Tell me in the comments!
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