A Grower Perspective

Last evening after dinner and as dusk was setting in, earlier than usual I might add, I went for a walk along our country road. I needed a quiet moment to clear my mind. Wandering along, I noticed the Queen Ann's Lace growing, thriving, and so extremely beautiful. This delicate plant exists and is glorious in what would seem to be the most adverse conditions, gravel against asphalt, with cars and trucks passing regularly and no water or fertilizer except what drops out of the tall boy beer and coke cans. Yet thrive it does and bloom with flowers that look like the finest lace from the north of France.

My little meditation on this was not an uncommon story but one often forgotten or overlooked. The rags to riches story, the silk purse out of a sow's ear story, that great beauty exists everywhere and that maybe our situations are just what we need to thrive and be glorious.

I wanted to pick some and place the vase where I would see it, then thought against it. As is often the case with tough plants they wither when taken from their homes. I can go out any time and be reminded and so can you. Queen Ann's Lace is an August beauty and right there for all to see.