Flowers, omnium

This morning I promised a friend that I'd send her a link to some of my blog articles that include flower photographs. In keeping the promise, I realized that the simplest thing to do was to send her the link http://moristotle.blogspot.com/search/label/flowers, which brings up every Moristotle article labeled "flowers."
    I probably didn't include the label with literally all of my flower articles, but surely I labeled most of them so.
    Enjoy!
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Note that you can reuse the web address provided above by replacing "flowers" at the end with any other label you know that I've used. A selection of my labels is provided in the sidebar (to the right, down a ways).

Stop to look

Early magnolia blossom

Energy to unload my camera

For my renewed energy I credit the therapy of not trying to use both eyes for computer work (for about 48 hours now). This seems to have made all the difference—or at least that part of the difference that doesn't derive simply from renewed hope, a factor very hard to account for in both introspection and scientific investigation.
    Hope, of course, also plays a role in the matter of religious belief, and might even generally account for the persistence of religious belief. Religious beliefs may not be true, but they do provide hope. Hope that injustice will be righted, that those who died young or horribly will rise again and their oppressors punished appropriately (if not inappropriately by all of them being tortured equally forever and forever), that our old, sagging bodies will be restored to their youthful, sexy (erect) versions, that, alas, we will see our beloved mama and papa again (or that the bastard will have the opportunity to burn in hell),....

Magnolia says it's spring!

About time!
    The tree is a Magnolia 'Ricki,' planted in January 2009 as a 5-gallon tree from Forest Farm Nursery in Oregon.

Magnolia blossoms