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Brugmansia
Brugmansia (a.k.a. Angel's Trumpet), New Westminster, B.C., October 9, 2022
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“The grass flames up on the hillsides like a spring fire — “et primitus oritur herba imbribus primoribus evocata” — as if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun; not yellow but green is the color of its flame; — the symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year’s hay with the fresh life below. It grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground. It is almost identical with that, for in the growing days of June, when the rills are dry, the grass-blades are their channels, and from year to year the herds drink at this perennial green stream, and the mower draws from it betimes their winter supply. So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.”
Fraser River Mirror
Queensborough Rail Bridge reflections in Fraser River, New Westminster, B.C., September 18, 2022.
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On the Boardwalk
Fraser River boardwalk, New Westminster, B.C., September 18, 2022
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Here comes the Sun
Sunflower, New Westminster, B.C., September 17, 2022
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Autumn
New Westminster, B.C., September 2018
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“Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water. Ah, many a tale their color told! And gradually from week to week the character of each tree came out, and it admired itself reflected in the smooth mirror of the lake. Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls. ”
