Pasque Flower Progression - Missoula, Montana -

Our neighbourhood pasque flower's 'before and after' are both charming! 

Wildflower Seedhead - Bluebird Preserve Trail, Missoula, Montana

"One kind thing is the seed from which a great goodness grows. It is not hope we hold to, Niece. It is belief in the power of that growing goodness. Migwech. Chi migwech."

-Henry Meloux in Windigo Island, Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger, p. 170

Knapweed Frost Blooms- East Missoula, Montana

slumbering knapweed 

a mimic of summer self

at Frost’s brush edits

-c hull

Summer Grass Shimmer - Missoula, Montana

'tis the season 
of
summer grass shimmer
wayside wafting 
along lazy backroads

Small Extravagances - Greenough Park, Missoula, Montana

"The way God squandered Himself had always hurt her; and annoyed her too...Well, of all the spendthrifts, she would think and then pull herself up. It was not for her to criticize the ways of Almighty God; if He liked to go to all that trouble over the snowflakes, millions and millions of them, their intricate patterns too small to be seen by human eyes, and melting as soon as made, that was His affair and not hers. All she could do about it was to catch in her window, and save from entire waste, as much of the squandered beauty as she could."

- Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984), from The Rosemary Tree

October Beauty - Missoula, Montana

"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." – L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942)

Future Abundance - Missoula, Montana

"Choose a mindset of abundance.  There is enough for both of us to win." - from Book Notes by David Mays, on Stephen M. R. Covey's The Speed of Trust, The One Thing That Changes Everything

Destined Seeds - Missoula, Montana

"Actions are the seed of fate; deeds grow into destiny." - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

Change In Progress - Missoula, Montana

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman (1819-1892)