There are few colours that capture the human condition’s imagination quite like blue. The colour of the sky, it is heaven where it lands upon the eye. Sapphire in a kiss, the Mediterranean waters I always miss. Yet blue is a colour that Mother nature reserves for few and rare it is to discover it in perfect bloom. Spied in my Father’s garden last summer, this tiny flower (called “nigella”) yearned vividly from the thorny tendrils which cradled it for the sun. It seems so dearly appropriate that the flower is called “love in the mist” … what a perfect way to describe the love I have found in the mist of my life.
All text and images © Dale Schierbeck
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One of my most favorite flowers for the color and the name!
Thank you. Truly beautiful and, as you say, what a beautiful name…
We called it “Love in the mist” but the real name is nigella. It self seeds well once it is established and it is lovely!
Thank you so much. Wonderful to have that piece of the puzzle filled in for myself and others looking at the photo now. It is indeed a lovely and unusual flower. One that now I know the name, I can look at seeing whether I can coax into my garden here in Ottawa. Thank you again.
That is indeed a lovely shade of blue!