© Dale Schierbeck 2014 Flower blooms are often ephemeral, lasting for a few short days or weeks, but the orchid, for all its delicate folds and appearance of fragility is an amazing flower that can endure for months at a time. This bloom has been providing me warmth since late winter where it sits next…
Fragile Worlds
In a moment, the world can change …. In one moment what was but a fragile orchid that I by chance encouraged to re-flower, became even more rare. One afternoon last fall, I returned from outside to find a dragon fly, slowed by the cold, had hitched a ride indoors on my shoulder. When I moved…