Day 5 of the Purple Flower Project
I neglected my blog long enough to go for a job interview, but EVER MINDFUL OF MY PRIME DIRECTIVE I noticed this deep purple iris in a yard near where I was parked. It’s intensity and beauty stayed with me all day and all night I had to have a picture of it! I waited until the next day and took a friend with me for courage to take pictures in a stranger’s yard. She acted as a wind shield, too, flags tend to flap in the wind. We looked rather strange bent over coats out like wings, but kept our focus on the perfect shot until we got it.
We became bolder! While making our escape we noticed the median strip of a road was planted with California natives which included purple lupines. What are flower stalkers to do but stand in the middle of the street with cars whizzing by and shoot picture after picture? I had to drag my partner in crime to safety she got so engrossed. I hope you enjoy the results of our near death flower stalking experience.
I encourage anyone who dreams of a flower all night to get out and shoot it!
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I love your purple flower, and I chuckled at your reference to the “prime directive”. Great going!!!
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I chuckled to, but I have friends that joke that everything that happens shows up on my blog. Glad you like the purple. I don’t know how long I can keep it up.
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I have started taking flower pictures because of your blog. Thanks!
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So glad to be an enabler 🙂 That is a big compliment, thank you and keep it up. Will we see them on your blog?
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Yes, eventually. 🙂
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I love how the iris colors match the background colors of your blog! That must have been part of the motivation for the purple flowers quest.
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It certainly is a benefit. And thank your efforts in the purple flower quest 😉 This page is getting prettier and prettier with all the likes a comments.
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thank you for braving danger and discovery to share these with us! There is so much beauty around us.
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Oh it was so much fun playing in the street at the age when we say “we will wear purple” 😉
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indeed. 🙂
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Irises are the sixth proof of the existence of god. Nothing so beautiful and intricate could just be happenstance. There’s an incredible artist out there somewhere who loves color and design.
Isn’t that median on Carlson amazing? I just saw it Sunday. It’s great and getting better. Gardeners I think are god’s true evangelists.
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Oh, I love this sentence. “Irises are the sixth proof of the existence of god” — Thank you for it….I found I could buy irises at Trader Joes at a very reasonable price, but growing them myself is always better. What are the first through fifth proofs????
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You’ll have to ask Jack, but for my part I find turtles swimming in the ocean that look like they are flying right up there. Have you seen them in the Montarey Bay Aquarium.
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Oh Jack you seem to be becoming a mystic. Thanks for sharing your words here.
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Purple Iris . . . my favorite!!!
NDL
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Remember all the Iris we had around the house on Ponca? I can still smell them!
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Essentially the Thomistic proofs are:
1. First Mover
2. First Cause
3. Necessary Being
4. Greatest Being
5. Intelligent Designer
For me Irises don’t fall into the 5th proof. They’re not intelligent, they’re gorgeous, they’re exuberant. An intelligent designer to me would be god as an engineer. An iris isn’t the creation of an engineer, it’s beyond function, it’s the thought of an artist, a lover of beauty.
One of my favorite sixth proofs for the existence of God was given by an Episcopal priest from Chicago in October one year when the Cubs were doing very well. 6. It’s October and the Cubs are in first place. It was a very perishable proof.
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Well sa any baseball fan of the Cubbies would agree. Does anyone else have interesting proofs of the existence of God?
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