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Gather Flowers

Flowers

Gather a bouquet.

What better way to brighten your day than flowers, the distillate bloom of the joy of plants?

First rains come in mid-October this year, after six months of crushing drought. The night after the first rain, it is as if all of Nature is exhaling. I stomp the land in tabi shoes, Japanese gardening boots, and the cloth uppers become saturated, my feet grow wet, but it is a happiness. The rain continues. Two days later I meet my wife at the farmer’s market. The dog, who hates the rain, is in my car, cowering. Rain runs in rivulets down my neck, inside my rain jacket, under my sweater.

At the farmer’s market I get a cappuccino, which they make in my mug, and I walk around with it, my hands warm. Farmer Hale, from Hale Farms in Sebastopol, cuts off pieces of Arkansas Black, and Granny Smith apples for us to sample: the flavors explode in our mouths. He discourses on cultivars, and the attributes of heirloom apples.

Walking down the far row we see it, and it calls to us like a beacon: the flower stand. Under a grey sky, the colors of the flowers, vibrant as life, crackle and pop all the more. I can’t resist pulling out my camera. Can I take a picture of the flowers? They nod yes.

Related Practices:

See Gardening. See Get a Plant. See Befriend a Tree. See Forest Bathing. See Prune Your Trees. See Get to Know Your Local Flora and Fauna. See Eat Seasonally. See Forage. See Nourish the Roots. See The Importance of the 'Aina': Hawa'iian Indigenous Natural Farming. See Living Water. From the standpoint of vision–using the eyes–related to Orienting, Soften the Gaze, and Stare Vacantly into Space. See Observe Closely.

Who taught us this?

I wonder if you have to learn to connect with plants or if it is innate.

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Who taught us this?

I wonder if you have to learn to connect with plants or if it is innate.

Teach me how

Humans have probably always been awed by the natural world.

More about this if we know it...

Video: Distill | Photography: Stein Egil Liland | Licensed from Pexels.com, used with permission.

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