Do you sometimes find your eye has grown fatigued by the regimented standards of beauty we are bombarded with by the popular media? Have you wandered city streets and carefully groomed suburbs and felt uninspired by the "curbside" views? On Denman Island Mother Nature invites you to slow down and take in her Wild Beauty.
For example, the wild broom is an "invading species" that is now happily asserting its rights all over the globe. Many folks curse the dreaded broom and try to quell its zest for multiplication by uprooting it whenever possible. But heedless of humans' attempts to influence its spread, the broom proliferates abundantly with "exploding" seed pods and celebrates unabashedly with gorgeous sun-yellow blossoms. The photo here shows an unusual "spicy" red variation to the traditional yellow blossom.
I think there was a time I would have walked past this plant and just thought, "hmmmm, weed -- must remember to dig that out..." But on this day, with my camera in hand, I was riveted by the exquisite beauty and spicy individuality of this lone broom on our land. In many ways, the plant life on Denman Island offers similar "exquisite beauty and spicy individuality" if only we trade in our city vision for a fresh Island perspective. So while you are on Denman Island, slow down and really take in all the wild beauty surrounding you.
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Photo credits: Photos by Jessica at Oceanwood.
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