The solar eclipse...and this late spring flowering

Click on the image above to visit Kodiak's website.Eclipse from the Big Sur coastline by Kodiak Greenwood.

Photo by Hayley Marie Photography. Click on either the photo above or below to see more of Hayley's photographs.Morro Rock at the eclipse.

Photo by Hayley Marie Photography

Further north along the coast, eclipse crescents appear through madrone foliage on a deadfall madrone trunk.

Click on the image above to visit Melissa's website.And on artist Melissa Lofton's hardwood floor.

One striking thing was how much more flat and bluish the sunlight suddenly had become. The eclipse pulled so much goldenness out of the air while it lasted.

But afterwards the gloaming light immediately returned.

And the eclipse came in the midst of such exuberant late-spring flowering. Here in upper Rocky Creek this is the time when the mountainsides fill with Douglas Iris.

Xasáuan Today has been posting his "Wildflower of the Week." His three most recent choices appear in this post as well, including the Scarlet Bugler above.

And Silver Lupine. And the Douglas Iris that already appeared even further above.

California wild roseGlobe lily

And all these flowering waist-high grasses whose names I do not know. Is this purple needlegrass curling around someone else?

The leopard lilies by the creek won't blossom for a little while yet. But they are more than worth the wait.

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Besides the photographs by Kodiak Greenwood, Hayley Marie, and Melissa Lofton, the other photos are by Debi.

"The world globes itself in a drop of dew."

Xasáuan Today has chosen silver lupine as its wildflower of this week. As usual, XT's photos and account are an education in themselves.

Here are a few more photos to add to that account — from upper Rocky Creek in our recent rains. All the photos are Debi's. Notice how beautiful the abstracted backgrounds to the lupines also are.

And as Emerson writes:

"The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little. Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity — all find room to consist in the small creature. So do we put our life into every act. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation."

And such a globe of dew feels alot like home, doesn't it?