Saturday, November 5, 2011

We Practice Cross-Pollination When We Visually Transfer the Beauty of One Thing to Another


"How to extract life's nectar from the flower of the world.  That is my every-day business.  I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.  Do I not impregnate and intermix the flowers, produce rare and finer varieties by transferring my eyes from one to another? . . .  The poor rich man!  All he has is what he has bought.  What I see is mine."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Rosy Paintbrush, Silver Creek Basin, Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness, CO, August 13, 2011.  These particular blooms were produced by the interbreeding of Rosy Paintbrush and Western Yellow Paintbrush.





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