“We can no longer hear the voice of the rivers, the mountains, or the sea.
Thomas Berry
The trees and meadows are no longer intimate modes of spirit presence.
The world about us has become an ‘it’ rather than a ‘thou.’”
Columbines in the Shade
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Yellow Columbine -
Shades of Purple
Columbine 
Pansy Spent an hour at the trial garden near Colorado State University campus on Saturday. Too early for most flowers but got my fix in. And, today is my sisters birthday, so Happy Birthday Sheree. Love you!
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Columbine
Colorado’s State Flower Hope everyone in the Fort Collins area is taking care of themselves. I’m on a trip and following closely the progress of the High Park Fire just west of Fort Collins. I hope everyone is safe!
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Columbine
Wild Columbine While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange -
Wild Columbine
Wild Columbine “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
Maya AngelouThe above image of a Wild Columbine was taken at Blendon Woods Garden near the visitors information building. This beautiful woodland wildflower has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes, similar to the garden Columbines. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects especially adapted for reaching the sweet secretion. European Columbine (A. vulgaris), with blue, violet, pink, or white short-spurred flowers, was introduced from Europe and has now become well established in many parts of the East. It is different from its cousin, the Colorado Blue Columbine, which I am familiar with in that it droops downward while the Colorado Blue Columbine tips upward. It is a beautiful flower.
