A Bold Bloom
Roadside Mullein
at midsummer’s peak
stands erect
in shameless bloom
like a flag of male assuredness
making claim to the season’s
fertile gifts
~The Blue Ridge
Parkway 7/17/06
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Comments
Great photo and great symbolism.
Posted by: Terri | July 19, 2006 8:55 AM
awesome! that's all I can really say.
Posted by: amy | July 19, 2006 9:12 AM
Very good, Colleen!!
Posted by: kenju | July 19, 2006 9:41 AM
Nice!
Glad I could be a source of your amusement, yesterday!
Posted by: Nancy | July 19, 2006 11:15 AM
I just read an article in my birds and blooms magazine about the milk weed plant and butterflys and low and behold it is right in your post! They really do like them I guess.
I like the post alot!
Posted by: Deana | July 19, 2006 9:06 PM
What? No name of the plant or the butterfly?
Nice shot.
Posted by: srp | July 19, 2006 10:30 PM
The subject of the poem and photo is a mullein plant...very medicinal...an expectorant and sedative. I think the butterfly is a swallowtail, and like Deana says, it loves that milkweed plant (good for warts).
Posted by: colleen | July 19, 2006 10:52 PM
Lovely photo and the poem is wonderful! One of my favorite wildflowers is the milkweed, though. When I was quite young the waxy little flowers fascinated me, and the fascination hasn't died!
Posted by: Leslie | July 20, 2006 9:35 AM
Is this the "really hot photo" you referred to on my fondofphotography.blogspot.com blog (turkey vulture pic?). Cause I'm JUST NOW reading the comments! Sorry!
Posted by: Janet | August 8, 2006 4:20 PM