Wednesday Vignettes March 22, 2017

 Vignettes from the Huntington today.  Above, I like the way the 'Blue Flame' stalk frames the palm behind it, and the way the light hits Aeonium 'Jack Caitlin' in the foreground.  

A xeric garden without trees is a flat, hot, oppressive thing.  A refuge from the sun is not a rejection of the sun, but rather a search for balance.  

 Balance of light and shade, of cool and heat. 

 Balance of tough with tender.  Tender without tough is unsustainable, but tough without tender is cruelty.

A little family is framed by towering bamboo, and the orange Clivia in the foreground.  Humans at peace with nature.  Balance.

Finding balance is a constant effort.  The pendulum swings. 

Apropos of the little family, of tough and tender, light and dark, cruelty and empathy, balance, balance, a thought for the day:

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."  

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