Alternate view #2 of Pink Lotus, Balboa Park, San Diego, Ca.

"Like a freckle-faced Celtic girl reincarnated as a flower" - Citronella-colored Tiger Lilly, Lilium Lancifolium, yellow sub-species Flaviflorum (Macho).

"Now, I see thy glory like a shooting star / Fall to the Oregonian garden from the heavens" (paraphrased from Wm. Shakespeare, Richard II) - Shooting Star (Dodecatheon), part of the Primrose family Primulaceae. Photo taken in backwoods of foggy Oregon forest. Note: Vertical line on bottom is technical fault - ed.

"The Oregonian Hanging Gardens: the 8th Wonder of the World" - Mother Nature's two-toned umbrella, swaying in the breeze near a hidden waterfall: Red Columbine, pacific northwest (Aquilegia Formosa). Photo taken in a remote location, somewhere in the misty forests of Oregon.

"Keep munchin' on my leaf, bug, and you'll be needin' to visit the apothecary shop" - Rare wild purple orchid (species unknown to our blog page), photo taken at Lady Bird Johnson Memorial Grove, N. California circa 1991.