“A world of grief and pain / Flowers bloom / Even then” Issa
Orchid
Photo by Doug Coulson
rain ripening tomatoes
Photo by Doug Coulson
rain droplets
Photo by Doug Coulson
orchid after rain
Photo by Doug Coulson
bee on ageratum
Photo by Doug Coulson
morning glory on deck
Photo by Doug Coulson
cloud skipper on morning glory
Photo by Doug Coulson
bee on morning glory
Photo by Doug Coulson
seed pod by asters
Photo by Doug Coulson
morning glory seed pods
Photo by Doug Coulson
drawn in by beauty
Photo by Doug Coulson
pollinator
Photo by Doug Coulson
Night Blooming Cereus Flower
Photo by Doug Coulson
Blooms once a year at night, then dies the next morning
in the joy of morning glory
Photo by Doug Coulson
water lilies
Photo by Doug Coulson
coneflower
Photo by Doug Coulson
coneflower
Photo by Doug Coulson
coneflower
Photo by Doug Coulson
dying beauty
“I who did not die, who am still living, / still lying in the backseat behind all my questions, / clenching and opening one small hand. …” words by Naomi Shihab Nye in her poem Making A Fist.
lotus bloom
Photo by Doug Coulson - Aquatic Gardens, Washington DC