A Tale Worth Telling

Here are two photos I took of the Benguet Lily, Lilium philippinenses.  These beautiful wildflowers fascinate me.  They look like they should live in a greenhouse, but they come up all by themselves each June or July on the hills all around here.  They grow by choice on the worst-looking stony soil: barren road cuts and sheer cliffs.  Grace and grit, all in one glorious package.  They make me wish that I were a more skillful photographer than I am, but I had to try, and it's hard to make them look bad, they are such amazing flowers.

If only we were all able to bring such beauty out of the stony wilderness of our lives!