birthday candles

today my daughter turns 23 years old. two weeks ago she left our home in minnesota, where we all waited out COVID together in happy isolation, and she returned to her boyfriend of four years and her new job in downtown san francisco. from what i can tell, she looks radiant and happy in her new life. i am thrilled for her. these jack-in-the pulpits really have nothing to do with eva’s birthday, except that they remind me of birthday candles. i have hundreds of these native woodland flowers in my yard at the moment. so if she were home…who knows, perhaps i would have decorated her cake with 23 jack-in-the-pulpit flowers (it wouldn’t havwe surprised her at all).

p.s. happy birthday Eva!

jack in the pulpit flowers