The common is what powers our whole ecology.
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It’s easy to overlook the speedwells.
Small, commonplace and low to the ground as they are.
Yet this humble carriage belies a flower of rare and surreal beauty.
Oh that deep cerulean blue, so beloved of Renaissance painters, reminds one of the mantle of a long forgotten Madonna.
Now they move gently on Western breezes, floral sirens luring the bees toward a secret tryste of love.
Yet more stories are unfolding within the Springtime of the Dehesa.
Photo: Speedwells at Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.