"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If only this could be a slide show rather than a single photograph! I've got to figure out how to do that. How awesome are the colors in nature! It's difficult for me to believe that the exquisite color and design of nature's creations are random acts of evolution, survival of the fittest kinds of occurrences. When I gaze at an orchid or a magnificent bird like the peacock in this photo, I imagine a divine creator with a palette and brush, bringing to life creations with the most glorious, exquisite colors and shapes, imbuing each of them with radiant light and life.
We
are surrounded with this beauty ~ it is everywhere. The warm glow of
sunset, brush strokes of orange, pink and gold as the sun dips toward
the horizon; spring and summer hillsides carpeted with wildflowers in
purple, pink, yellow, and blue; the bright red of a cardinal set against the white mid-winter snow. The verdant green forest; the rainbow colored iridescence of the
hummingbird or the butterfly. And for that matter, the bright colored rainbow that arcs across the sky after a storm. I have to say, I love rainbows! Nothing delights my
soul like watching rainbows dance across the wall as the sun shines through crystals hanging in my window.
Yes, I am grateful for nature's palette. What a feast for the senses! What a delight for the soul. In the words of one of my favorite poets:
"I
thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of
trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which
is infinite, which is yes."
~e.e.
cummings
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