Peonies

The garden is a place filled with life

and you can see that life grow 

and change like no where else.

Here is a picture of a peony bud,

still covered in tightly bound leaves.

So small and tightly wound, it's amazing what surprise

awaits from those tiny leaves.

 Then the ants come. From nowhere they suddenly appear

with a job to do. I still dont know why the Peony needs ants

in order to create their blooms.

The buds grow as the ants work.

And suddenly the ants finish and leave the flower

to finish blossoming on its own..

It opens into a magnificant, strongly sweetly perfumed massive ball of soft while petals.

Peonies don't last long so we take care to appreciate them, 

and take a sweet whiff every moment we can.

One blissfully large bloom so far, we await the masses.

Regards,

Betty