Wednesday, April 17, 2013

On a Montana Mountainside


            ... on a montana mountainside / protected by twelve gods 

                                                      ... snowflakes on purple petals ... the dark throat of a shooting star 





Photograph courtesy of: montucky.wordpress.com

14 comments:

  1. Teresa, your words are beautiful and you always add the perfect image to enhance them~

    Jan

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    1. Thank you so much, Jan. I love the header images you choose for your beautiful blog.

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  2. This is perfect. Teresa, I am enjoying this so...

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  3. Those flowers are so unusual aren't they? I saw them in Idaho a few years ago when I was involved in a project illustrating the flowers Lewis and Clark identified. Your poem is perfect for them.

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    1. That sounds like one very fun project! Are the illustrations available for viewing?

      Thank you!

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    2. I had an insomniac's random thought in the early hours.... the L&C species was called Dodecatheon Poeticum, Poet's Shooting Star :)
      The show was to mark the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 2006 at the Corcoran gallery in DC. Their website doesn't show any of our work now unfortunately in "past exhibits". It was great fun!

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    3. I have those, too. :)

      That exhibition sounds absolutely wonderful, Jill. Poet's Shooting Star ... How cool is that? :)

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  4. Beautiful words, beautiful photo (I'm a huge Montucky fan). The coupling is perfect!

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    1. His photographs of wildflowers are gorgeous. When I read his description of them, including the genus name meaning "Plant protected by twelve gods," I knew I had to create a poem around them.

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  5. Very nicely done, Teresa! I'm very pleased that you used the photo!

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    1. Your wildflower photos are non pareil. Thank you so much for allowing me to borrow from you. :)

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  6. All The Great Artists The World could Never Have Come Up With Such Beauty/Shape/Colour.
    Perfect.

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    1. Isn't it an exquisite little wildflower? The poem wrote itself... :) Thanks, Tony.

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