Showing posts with label Swamp Rose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swamp Rose. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2014

Before and After III


This is the third edition of "Before and After". 

Please enjoy this Botanical sequence of events, brought to you by "Father Nature". I also encourage you to get outside, in all of our beautiful seasons, to make your own discoveries. Perhaps you will be surprised here, as you view this series from flower to fruit. 




Jack-in-the-Pulpit







Sensitive Fern


fertile fern fronds - spore stalks



Swamp Rose

Swamp Rose - Hips




You may also like: 

Before and After II - June 5, 2014

Before and After - January 30, 2014





1. Jack-in-the-pulpit - (Arisaema atrorubens) - Home Woods

2. Sensitive Fern - (Onoclea sensibilis) - Home Woods

3. Swamp Rose - (Rosa palustris) - Gavin Lake,  Kent County,  Michigan






Monday, January 13, 2014

Fragments of Poetry 11

"The Wild Rose"  by Wendell Berry


Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,

suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was only shade,


and once more I am blessed, choosing
again what I chose before.



This post is dedicated to my loving wife, Mary.




The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry  ©  1998


Photo Location:

Kent County,  Michigan

Wild Rose/Swamp Rose - Rosa palustris