Posted in Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Claude Monet, postaday2011, Ralph Waldo Emerson, South Llano River State Park, Texas State Parks, weekly photo challenge: entrances, Wildflowers on August 15, 2011| 7 Comments »
South Llano River State Park
Entrance to the visitor center at this Texas state park made me feel as if I had come into a world of faries. In addition to the colorful wildflowers, I was welcomed by a scarlet tanager that hung around the building. -- Photo by Pat Bean
“Earth Laughs in Flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” Claude Monet
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Pat Bean is a writer, avid birder, hiker and passionate nature observer with wanderlust in her soul. She spent nine years living and traveling in a small RV. She now lives in Tucson with a furry black ball of energy she named Pepper, a rescued Scotty-mix. She was also a journalist for 37 years, and can be reached at patbean@msn.com
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