Lupine Garden

These pictures are from my lupine garden in Banner Elk taken this spring. The purple lupines were planted by my Mother many years ago and I planted the others to add to her lupine garden.

“They stood. And stood for something

Just by standing

In waiting. Unavailable. But there For sure.

Sure and unbending.

Rose-fingered dawns and navy midnight’s flower.Seed packets to begin with, pink and azure,

Sifting lightness and small jittery promise:

Lupin spires, erotics of the future,

Lip-brush of the blue and earth’s deep purchase.

O pastel turrets, pods and tapering stalks

That stood their ground for all our summer wending

And even when they blanched would never balk. 

And none of this surpassed our understanding."

Unknown Author