"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." ~Georgia O'Keeffe

Well...

Holy crap.  Now we're going back to May...2017!! 

Thankfully...or should I say sadly...I haven't been taking very many photos this past year, so there's much less to edit and process.  I need to get out more...when the sun is shining.

These are from Spring Grove Cemetery - one of my favorite-ist places to visit.  Fairyland extraordinaire.  Maybe I need to go back over with Chuck and kinda jump-start myself.  Get shit back on track....maybe take some photos of stuff OTHER than pink dogwoods - which apparently I was really enjoying.

Geez.

Enjoy.

Legend of the Dogwood

At the time of the Crucifixion the dogwood had been the size of the oak and other forest trees. So firm and strong was the tree that it was chosen as the timber for the cross. To be used thus for such a cruel purpose greatly distressed the tree, and Jesus, nailed upon it, sensed this, and, in His gentle pity for all sorrow and suffering, said to it: “Because of your regret and pity for My suffering, never again shall the dogwood tree grow large enough to be used as a cross.
“Henceforth it shall be slender and bent and twisted and its blossoms shall be in the form of a cross—two long and two short petals. And in the center of each petal there will be nail prints, brown with rust and stained with red, and in the center of the flower will be a crown of thorns, and all who see it will remember.”

~Maxwell Droke, The Speaker’s Special Occasion Book

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