Today was a very colorful day as I visited a place called Hope Furnace. Hope Furnace is a historic site where people nearly a century ago would smelt iron ore. Adjacent to the site is a swamp and stream, which if you go far enough eventually attaches to Lake Hope.
I guess I find it a little ironic that I saw the colors of the rainbow today (or near to it) at a site that is largely covered by water. Afterall, God's promise that he would never flood the earth again is manifested by the rainbow.
The colors of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Representing those colors are the red of the Cardinal Flower, the orange of the Sleepy Orange butterfly (the upper wing surface is very orange!), the yellow of the Wingstem (complete with bumble bee!), the green of the not yet ripened Sensitive Fern sporophyll, the blue of the Monkey Flower, and the indigo/violet of the Purple Fringeless Orchid. I threw in the pink Sweet Water Lily just for fun!
In all honesty, I didn't realize I had all these great colors today until I started looking over my photos tonite. I have to wonder how many really interesting things I miss because my mind is instead on hurrying to get home, or the fact that I forgot to stop at the post office this morning, or that my knee hurts. I need to do a better job of clearing all that other garbage out of mind, and focusing on the beauty that God has give us. Do you need to do the same?!
No comments:
Post a Comment