Late Bloomer

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.  It's what the sunflowers do."
Helen Keller

Tree Fungus

 

What can I say about a tree fungus except that sometimes when you look up you see something really interesting.

NWMP Monument

And when I get through with my training
I'll be one with that legion of old,
And I'll take my proud place with the members
Of the Scarlet, the Blue, and the Gold.

from the poem The Recruit

Bertram Graham Boutilier, RCMP, 1945.

Train Station

"There is a town in North Ontario"

from the song, Helpless by Neil Young

Sunflowers

What a glorious time,
right up til twilight,
And then I had to bid my sunflowers good-night.
Author unknown

Abbey ruins

Ye holy walls, that still sublime
Resist the crumbling touch of time,
How strongly still your form displays
The piety of ancient days.
     from, To the ruins of Lincluden Abbey
     by Robert Burns

Corn

There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow,
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,
An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky.

from Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'

by Oscar Hammerstein II

Daylily

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese proverb

Carrots and Beets

Beauty of hue is here less often seen
Than in the flowers we grow to please the eye;
But when did Nature not delight in green?

From The Vegetable Garden

by Robert Henry Forster

Deer on a foggy morning

 

Of all the animals God has made,
He has the sweetest head,
And looks so pretty in the glade,
With his coat of chestnut red.

From the children's poem,

The Gentle Deer