"Pale as noonday cloudlets are, Floating in the blue,
This little wildwood star
Blooms in light and dew...."--Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz, Quaker Ladies, 1900 
I found these dainty Quaker Ladies nodding with rain droplets on a sparsely wooded slope among mosses and leaves. Kin to the woodland Bluet, these exquisite little flowers dot meadows and wooded clearings from April to May with a happy sprinkling of blue sky.
For the Love of It...
...the sage sees heaven reflected in Nature as in a mirror, and he pursues this Art, not for the sake of gold or silver, but for the love of the knowledge which it reveals.
Sendivogius (1750)
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