dailiness

i’ve said for years that one of the biggest rewards of a daily practice is dailiness itself. there are things you see by being present every day that simply don’t show themselves any other way. these buds are just the latest of many examples. in a day or two they will be showy flower spikes, visible for hundreds of yards. yesterday they may have been dull buds nearly indistinguishable from the green leaves and stems that supported them. but today, my daily devotions were answered by this perfect, restrained ladder of magenta buds.

blazing star stem with buds (liatris)

grass lake, shoreview, minnesota