Fall Flowers Picked Today
When we think of fall we think of the color of falling leaves. One advantage of a rain garden in the front lawn is that you can see the fall color of flowers. The perennial flowers of the rain garden provide three seasons of beauty outside and in a vase inside. However, the flowers in the rain garden seem to be particularly beautiful and colorful in the fall. Today it was good picking for the vase on our kitchen table.
Although dying in nature is common in the fall, there is a particular beauty to nature of fall flowers dying. The perennials will return next spring, summer or fall and shine their beauty till winter comes again.
Today with the sun back out I feel more hopeful and motivated than the dark rainy day yesterday. As fall passes into winter there will be more dark days when I need to remember that the winter of dying will spring into new life, grow in the heat of the summer only to turn colorful and dye once more in the fall.
In some countries like Haiti or southern India there is only one temperature, in these two it is hot. Other places like Hawaii enjoy mild, sunny weather all year around. The flowers I picked today remind me there are some advantages to having four seasons. Primary is that we can observe all four seasons and see how they blend into each other.
One of my favorite Picture Quotes is by Joseph Campbell and reads: “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
The nature of fall flowers is to remind us to match our nature with Nature.
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