flowers

Last week, I had the opportunity to take the wonderful lady of my world to the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens (LGBG) in Richmond.

It was just a little past prime tulip season, but there were still quite a few colorful perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes from the Tulipa genus. And I won lots of points with my wonderful for tulips are her favorite.

The weather was perfect. The crowd was light. The day was wonderful.

A few things to notice from my day at the gardens …

a kid was rolling down the grassy hillside … enjoying the thrill of just spinning and rolling and laughing and have her mother watch her enjoy life. I truly loved the walk and the scents and the sights … Sometimes you need to just let loose and roll down the hill.
A single rose … one of the areas I love at LGBG is the rose garden. But today, it was barren, empty limbs, and just sitting in expectation of the next season at the gardens. But on my last walk through … I noticed a single rose … a solitary bloom of red pedals that were a prophetic sign of a full acreage of beauty just behind the next sunrise or two away. Sometimes you have to remember, barrenness is just a season that is waiting for the fruit to bear in the right season
Ducks. Wait, this was a tour to see the flowers. However, in the little cement pond there were a couple ducks. The beauty and grace and simplicity of two fowls just floating and chillin’. Sometimes you are looking at one thing (flowers) but there are other things to appreciate and take notice (ducks).