These flowers gently merge, one into the other with an intimate floral embrace.
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Sinuously, they intertwine and reach up toward the brilliant blue sky in search of our life giving star.
This painterly tableau is a part of an unfolding story, a minute drama set within countless other acts of union, life and death here upon the mountain.
Here, there is the gentle unravelling of tomorrows bloom, the magnificence of todays and the fading of yesterdays.
It is an ecology in dynamic motion and the constancy of change personified.
This is how the aboriginal ancestors saw the movement of life they so eloquently described as hoops within hoops set within the great wheel itself.
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Photo: Mallow and chamomile at Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.