A Bold Bloom
Roadside Mullein
at midsummer’s peak
stands erect
in shameless bloom
like a flag of male assuredness
making claim to the season’s
fertile gifts
~The Blue Ridge
Parkway 7/17/06
"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman
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July 19th, 2006 8:55 am
Great photo and great symbolism.
July 19th, 2006 9:12 am
awesome! that’s all I can really say.
July 19th, 2006 9:41 am
Very good, Colleen!!
July 19th, 2006 11:15 am
Nice!
Glad I could be a source of your amusement, yesterday!
July 19th, 2006 9:06 pm
I just read an article in my birds and blooms magazine about the milk weed plant and butterflys and low and behold it is right in your post! They really do like them I guess.
I like the post alot!
July 19th, 2006 10:30 pm
What? No name of the plant or the butterfly?
Nice shot.
July 19th, 2006 10:52 pm
The subject of the poem and photo is a mullein plant…very medicinal…an expectorant and sedative. I think the butterfly is a swallowtail, and like Deana says, it loves that milkweed plant (good for warts).
July 20th, 2006 9:35 am
Lovely photo and the poem is wonderful! One of my favorite wildflowers is the milkweed, though. When I was quite young the waxy little flowers fascinated me, and the fascination hasn’t died!
August 8th, 2006 4:20 pm
Is this the “really hot photo” you referred to on my fondofphotography.blogspot.com blog (turkey vulture pic?). Cause I’m JUST NOW reading the comments! Sorry!