Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Yellow Lady Slipper (Bucket List item for both of us)


We have always wanted to see Lady Slippers but expected to see them 
in some ferny glen, not next to a gravel lane amid alkali sloughs 
while we were looking for shorebirds. But Helen spotted them there. 
Laying on the ground for the photo did result in me finding a tick later,
but it had not bitten me and now the answer is at hand. 
Please see the last photo.

"I hear them
deep inside me, whispering
oh what is that beautiful thing
that just happened?"

from At Blackwater Pond
by Mary Oliver




Having hauled me to the Shellbrook Medical Clinic
for infected tick bites two years running, Helen got me
 an anti-tick outfit, because she is a wonderful person. 



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