Figure 1 – Honey golden Coneflowers, July 2020, Salem Maritime National National historic Site. (c) DE Wolf 2020.

Midsummer, the bringer of dreams, has this year brought with it a marvelous crop of coneflowers. The colors are many and delightfully varied. I offer up the photographs of Figures 1 & 2. 

There is an ancient Indian proverb that says that,

“all the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.”

This seems to me very apt for these times of disease, incompetence, racial and political turmoil. We need to be careful what seeds we sow. On the other hand, there is a beautiful garden to be grown, and we must have faith in the future that we bequeath our children.

Figure 1 – Magenta Coneflowers, July 2020, Salem Maritime National National historic Site. (c) DE Wolf 2020.