Enough with rain and grayness.
Let's travel to a place literally growing, teasing out, burgeoning with color.
One of the things I love about San Francisco
is Golden Gate Park's ethereal Conservatory of Flowers...
with its white wedding cake frosting...
we enter as
'spiritual window shoppers'...
to balmy rooms filled with jewels of such sweetness
they help us grow sweet again...
...eager faces lifting toward the light,
jewels of such tenderness
they are crushed by the slightest touch...
epiphanies close to the edge...
love stories naked
healing wounds...
essences overflow
in a fragrant rush of fresh mounds and raw dirt...
sacredness radiating in beaded mist...
minerals spin in plants
just as souls move in changing light...
chance meetings
the clearest signs of grace...
power and magic
frequent occurrences...
frequent occurrences...
Ahh, the wisdom of spring.
Rain, shine or misty fog,
Golden Gate Park's temperate botanical garden
is a treasure trove of rare and exotic, tropical plants.
At the Conservatory:
April 7-Oct.30, 2011
Don't miss
'Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues and Assassins'.
The Special Exhibits Gallery at the Conservatory
"introduces visitors to living examples of dozens of infamous plants that have left their mark on history
and claimed many an unfortunate victim."
For more information, click here.
(Photographs copyright: Kirsten Steen
Words inspired by The Soul of Rumi)
