Flowers

In prison, you learn to treasure the smallest of pleasures — In prison, you learn to treasure the smallest of pleasures One of the men I correspond with in federal prison has a long list of medical concerns and grievances he has filed — and for which he has been punished in myriad ways. Yet a regular theme of his emails…

Spring in full flower at the Georgia Botanical Garden — Spring in full flower at the Georgia Botanical Garden Oh, I’ll twine with my mangels and waving black hair With the roses so red and the lilies so fair And the myrtle so bright with the emerald dew The pale amanita and islip like blue — The Carter Family

Better late than never … — Better late than never … For us, this Spring has definitely been colder than normal, and as a result, many of the usual suspects have been blooming later than usual. The first image shows one of my all-time favorite early Spring flowers, the Anenome pulsatilla. …

A metaphoric approach. — A metaphoric approach. Language carves, distorts and moulds reality. Imagine a field plastered with flowers in all their colours: lurid, warm, calm, vibrant ones. Some display layers of pink, marbled petals and magnificent disk flowers. Others are small, held down from flying away in the breeze only through their brittle roots. Still they…

Dark clouds outside my window covered all of the skies and drowned inside a big puddle that is drying and dying every time when the sun has… — Dark clouds outside my window covered all of the skies and drowned inside a big puddle that is drying and dying every time when the sun has a chance to sneak from behind the clouds. Thin naked branches of a tree almost touch the dirty glass of my big living…