9 March 2014
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York
Ryan Smith
Exciting news for those who follow my posts of purple flowers.
To date, with one exception, I have taken all the photos. Peng Leong sent one photo, posted in September of 2012.
Today, Ryan Smith sent another photo. It will go live later tonight.
The photo’s arrival inspired me to a new section: the Purple Flowers Guest Collection.
Want to take part? It may not make you famous, but it could be fun.
If you want to participate, email me your photo with your name, the date of the photo, and where you took the photo. Photos from third parties won’t be accepted.
See you along the Trail.
The photo is from Ghost Ranch on 30 July 2008 and was the photo posted on the day the purple flowers series launched.
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Some stand tall,
others wait their turn.
22 February 2014
Seattle, Washington
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Perhaps
potential purple flowers
would be a better title.
26 March 2013
Gimhae, Republic of Korea
Battered, stressed
flowers await the moment of bloom.
22 February 2014
Seattle, Washington
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Potential blooms,
evoke possibilities of peace.
22 February 2014
Seattle, Washington
Standing guard
in line
as though someone had
planted rows of flowers.
22 February 2014
Chihuly Garden and Glass
Seattle, Washington
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A stew of purple beauty
greets visitors to the
Traditional Korean House Gimhae.
26 March 2013
Gimhae, Republic of Korea
Not flowers,
but they evoke something floral
22 February 2014
Chihuly Garden and Glass
Seattle, Washington
Purple flowers, unplanted, mark
the site of the
Seotal Oreum Massacre:
In 1950, after the Korean war broke out,
the Korean government issued orders
of “preventative detention”
of suspected communists and communist sympathizers.
Of the 344 people the Moseulpo Police detained,
210 were illegally massacred in two mass killings at the base of Seotal Oreum.
The people
and the flowers
remember.
23 March 2013
Seotal Oreum, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea
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Along the Graybeard Trail 