
Black-Eyed Susans Among the Asters

Writer – Photographer – Visual Artist



Oil on Canvas

Oil on Wood Panel (Driftwood from Carrying Place Cove – Lubec, ME.)


These are 420-million year old Brachiopods of the Silurian period found on a rocky outcropping at Reversing Falls – Pembroke, Maine.

The wondering flowers looked up to see
Who had offered the worm a home:
‘T was a clover-blossom, whose fluttering leaves
Seemed beckoning him to come;
It dwelt in a sunny little nook,
Where cool winds rustled by,
And murmuring bees and butterflies came,
On the flower’s breast to lie.
–– Louisa May Alcott

“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” – Proverbs 6:6

“The world laughs in flowers.” – Henry David Thoreau


“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” ― Henry David Thoreau