Natural inspiration

This is what I found when I walked out my backdoor a few minutes ago…

I guess you’d have to know that out the back door is a lot of nothing. We haven’t gotten flowers to grow there yet. This just happened to pop up.

You’d also have to know that I’m not a “flower person.”  In fact, when my mother wanted to “add some landscaping” this year I was very specific – No Annuals!  Perennials, no problem.  Annuals, no way.  And I wasn’t budging.

Its not that I *hate* flowers.  Its really more that I just hate digging in the dirt.  (True story:  When I was a baby, I never crawled.  I got up and started walking. When I fell down in grass, I apparently would look up at the adult with a very disgusted look on my face and put my arms out and *cry* until someone picked me up!)   I have never liked dirt unless I was digging in the vegetable garden with my PopPa.

These were not there on Saturday when I went out that door.  Some time between then and now, these beauties popped up and bloomed in their glory.  As I walked to the car, my muse started to nudge me.  She knew there was inspiration in that natural wonderment.

Tell me about you:  How many times have you pass by something in nature and find inspiration?  What inspires you most?  Do you write about it?  Take a picture of it?  What was your most memorable natural inspiration?