More Than Anything, I Must Have Flowers, Always and Always-- Monet

Wait. So this Monet was a butterfly?

What kind?

Or maybe he was a honeybee?

Plants With Pavement and the Built World as Background

Because the sheer beauty of the form of the NY ironweed is not diminished by it.

Because even the tiniest of flowers can still manage to command your attention here.

Because the pavement and sidewalk take me where I want to go. And because the flowers and plants are here right where we are. In the places we have built that contain both hard and soft landscapes.

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only eternal fountain of youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes..." Proust

Hooked on Anemones

The lure of the anemones is irresistible bait for me and a bumblebee. 

I, however, refrained from trying to stick my whole head in one.

Standing in for the Sun on a Cool Gray Summer Morning.

It's almost as if the sunflowers were standing in for the sun earlier on today's unusually cool and grey summer morning. And I guess then the bees were like that daredevil Icarus, only way more successful?

Spicebush Swallowtail at Summersweet!!!

Looks like I was in the right place at the right time to catch a glimpse of this suh-weet Spicebush Swallowtail.