Red Jade Vine/Today's Flowers # 7

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Red Jade Vine [Mucuna benettii]

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! 
It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome.
Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars
the flowers of the heaven.

~ A.J. Balfour

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Theme Day: View [Everyday Life Around The World]

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Theme:  View

View of Malingay Cove, popularly known as Blue Lagoon, in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte.

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Eryngium/Today's Flowers #6

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Eryngium, Seaholly

Any idea what this flower is called? Spotted this at the botanical garden in Seattle.

March on.  Do not tarry.  To go forward is to move toward perfection.  March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.  ~ Kahlil Gibran

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