Close to home…

How silly was I to think I’d miss the blooms of lupine once we’d moved?

I chuckle still to see it in such profusion on my walk just down the road from the house…

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The ever-spectacular tiger lily is here too…

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And grand vistas are just a short walk away…

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And to power the valley there are dams…

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I love the trees with white britches…

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And always the flowers draw my lens…

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Just out the  window grows my own pot of moss rose (and scabiosa–such an unpleasant sounding name)  which were never very happy on the cool coast but flourish here ( :

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Lovely.

–LS