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In the woods we return to reason and faith-Emerson

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

8-22 Overcast skies and the absence of any breeze made this morning a perfect time to take some pictures of riverside wildflowers.
Great Lobelia, the biggest and showiest of these flowers, is possibly a garden escape. It now grows in a willow, milkweed, goldenrod thicket and I can never find it until it flowers.
Groundnut has been in flower for a week or more but all my previous attempts at capturing its image were blurred by breezes.
And Closed Gentian was a bonus - a lucky and unexpected find.
The first of the rain caught me afoot on the cobble bars of the West River. The rain was warm, and gloriously soothing... but the rocks were slick and treacherous within minutes after the rain started. Nevertheless, as every living thing seems to revel in this warm, moist, dimly lit moment I believe that I should do no less!
John

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