Memories of New Zealand last December
A fast raining little river flanked by lupins
who could help stopping to admire?
couldn't stop on the bridge
so had to walk back from the road verge
up the hill a bit
but it was so very worth while
of be engulfed by the massed perfume
and multiplicity of colours
as a bonus they were flanked by elder bushes in full bloom
which are prolific in this beautiful country
an elderflower infusion sponged on hives
and many other rashes
shrinks them away within a few days,
even allergic reactions to antibiotics
that manifest in large welts
these lupins have covered acres of land down the hillside
some call them invasive weeds
but what is a weed but a flower out of it's desired place
only people wanting to
force their own will on a landscape
think in therms of flower and weeds
Sometimes, just sometimes, God steps in
and creates a flower bed of this magnitude
that leaves one speechless with awe at the beauty
I will never forget the wonder of the scent
almost visibly hanging in the sun-warmed air
it was so hard to drag ourselves away . . .
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