LADY OF WISDOM

The day we drove up to visit our friend in the hospital, we stopped at two Amish greenhouses on the way home.  The hospital patient asked us to buy 8 celebrity tomato plants, 3 pepper and 1 jalapeno for his garden plot.  The Amish are known for selling glorious spring flowers and started veggie plants.  Gardening provides their sustenance, and they pass the same opportunity on to us Englishmen (as the Amish call us).  Prices are fair, although they've gone up like everywhere else.  

Before leaving one of the two greenhouse farms, my boyfriend was asked to stop so I could photograph this massive tree standing in front of their large white house....

The tree makes me think of humanity.....branched out in different directions.....each branch claiming to be the main one.  We fight, we wage wars and for what?  Why cannot we see that we are all part of the one human tree, period.  One trunk, many branches.  This ain't rocket science, yet for thousands of years the battle continues and worsens.

I like taking photographs of Nature, because I think She left answers for us to find ourselves.  The power of observation is a valuable skill, costs nothing, yet can help us formulate thoughts that satisfy our curiosities.  

The stones encircling the tree form a grotto of reverence around her.  She is a true Lady of Wisdom, having lived a long life and experienced many of life's storms.  Truly, my favorite part of the drive.