Girls Gone Wild!

 I continue to be both amazed and satisfied by un-flashy things I see in the natural world around me.  For instance, it has only gradually crept up on me over the last few years that the feminine characteristics of nature are wonderful.

Recently my little sweetie and I were biking on a forest road.  I stopped at an unflashy cluster of yellow flowers of a type I never noticed before.  It seemed important to stop pedaling and let it all soak in for a couple minutes:

My little sweetie obviously agreed.

Looking around my environment, there are 'girls gone wild' everywhere.  Sometime it is in the curves of the topography:

The male mind -- being what it is -- can't look at curves on hills without running off in a direction that is all too easy to guess.

But most of the time, the feminine characteristics of nature are subtle.  Even water has become feminine in my imagination because it allows life to flourish everywhere:

Maybe you need to spend half the year in the Southwest, with its harsh masculine characteristics, to really appreciate flowing water, soggy green swales, or natural springs:

But looking upwards is great, too.  Just imagine a sky full of moisture and humidity with the ability to form clouds:

One of my favorite moments is when floating longships of clouds line up luckily to drape hills with commensurate shadows:

Occasionally I even indulge in postcard scenery, where one can imagine Julie Andrews spinning at the top of a mountain at the beginning of the movie: