Buttercups Despite - Missoula, Montana

“Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute.”

- Richard Grossinger

(& yes, this photo was taken earlier in the spring...)

Green Leaf Joy and Shadow - Missoula, Montana

"....What is all this juice and all this joy?         

   A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning

In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy,         

   Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning..." 

- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), from Spring