Friday, May 15, 2009

Everything is Blooming Most Recklessly

Everything is blooming most recklessly;
if it were voices instead of colors,
there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

Confession: I don't really like flowers. I'd take green trees and leafy plants any day over a flower... but there are exceptions. And today is one of those exceptions.

And I just couldn't resist:



1 comment:

harold D said...

Yea... flower are just show-offs! Look at me!... NO, look at ME! Welll, I smell better that that trampy iris over there. Huh? am I right?
Flower. Eck.