Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Plain Jane!

What a loaded phrase!  Plain Jane! My goddaughter Jane is one of the most beautiful women that I know! Yet the phrase persists.
A house finch, female, looks like a plain jane next to a goldfinch.  But she does the work of having and caring for the young, which is why she is not so colorful (as I understand it) cause the lack of color provides a degree of safety from predators. Intriguing.
Then the Canna Lily comes by and catches the setting sun in such beauty and glory and all the plainness of the world is forgotten for a moment.  Breathtaking.

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