Wildflowers

Where you'd least expect them,

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"Look and you will find it. What is unsought will go undetected."

~ Sophocles

 "The Earth Laughs in Flowers."

-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."   

-  Henry Ward Beecher

"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"  

-  G.K. Chesterton 

These wildflowers we found a couple weeks ago, some almost hidden, nestled in the sage of the high desert -- others (mostly the purples) growing bold and brazen and thick on the roadsides of the higher mountain passes.