Sunshine Growing in Random Places

I live in an apartment...in Houston...across the street from a movie theater.

But God loves to throw in little bursts of nature here and there...and when I stop to notice, it makes me smile.


This isn't out in a country meadow...or on a mountainside...

It's between a theater and a grocery store, but that in no way takes away from the beauty.  






I think I need to search for other wildflowers tomorrow.  

"Earth laughs in flowers"  -Ralph Waldo Emerson



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