California poppy

Rose

Photo by my friend Penelope

Rose hip

Red Rocks

I believe that spiritual resistance — the ability to stand firm at the center of our convictions when everything around us asks us to concede — that our capacity to face the harsh measures of life, comes from the deep quiet of listening to the land, the river, the rocks. There is a resonance of humility that has evolved with the earth…Each of us belongs to a particular landscape, one that informs who we are, a place that carries our history, our dreams, holds us to a moral line of behavior that transcends thought. And in each of these places, home work is required, a participation in public life to make certain all is not destroyed under the banner of progress, expediency, or ignorance.

Terry Tempest Williams, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

Gaillardia & Cabbage White

Gaillardia 2

Gaillardia 1

Yarrow

Pansies

Photo by my friend Penelope

Autumn Sage