More wonders of the World - a little patch of God's garden

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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