Art by Gravity

Just in from the yard, flower heads bent down

Two days later, each stem is artfully and elegantly shaped 

You've seen it here before.  Gravity and flowers, the pull down makes the flowers face up.  Gravity has  such an artful way, twirling and swirling the stems with elegance a human hand knows nothing of.













This year slender branches of the Rudbeckia seem to break off at the central stalk.  Just enough connection remains to keep the flowers alive. Gathering these for house flowers is part of my Things I get to do today. Arranging them over the next few days is what Nature gets to do today.

Gravity

Yellow foxglove pointing the way

It makes flowers grow up.  It seems that no matter the direction of the stem, the flower itself knows how to hold its head up. Weighty blooms on long stems often are not well supported.  The stem leans more and more, but the flower always knows up.  The yellow foxglove just turns up the end of the stem.  Shasta Daisies put their yellow faces up.  My tomatoes were lying down a bit.  When they were tied to their supports, the stems had some pretty odd angles, but in the day or so they all straighten out and knew which way was up.  Gravity is the friend that shows the way.

Stems flat but faces turning up

Some times when it seems there are too many Things I get to do today, or I feel too distracted to know which way is up, looking at a simple, elegant flower will give me my directions.  Settle into the energy of the earth (gravity) and you'll see which way is up.