“When you take a flower
in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to
give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they
have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or
not.”
~ Georgia O’Keeffe
~ 1887-1986
A beautiful zinnia
gushes with color on a late summer evening in early September at Trexler Nature
Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
Zinnia
is a genus of plants of the sunflower tribe within the daisy family. They gush
in color, including white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red purple and lilac. Their
tendency to attract butterflies and hummingbirds is seen as desirable. The
genus honors German master botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759).
