75/365: "Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today Steve and I went to the Upper Table Rock trail head, which is only about 10 minutes from our house (you can see it from our house and is in some of my pictures!). We met one of our new friends there, Michael Adams, and his son Josh, and we all took off up the trail for a lovely hike and photography as well! It was such a great day and I got lots of pictures despite the wind on top! I'm only sharing 5 today, but I'll have more to slip in as archive images in the future! :)

This picture shows what is in my opinion, the signature flower of the Table Rocks, the incredibly beautiful Grass Widow flower. I'm so glad they were still in bloom, because I thought Steve and I came up here in February last year to take pictures, but in fact, we were here exactly one year ago!! (If you'd like to see my pictures from last year, there's another Grass Widow picture below: click on it and scroll down! :D)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Wikipedia: Ralph Waldo Emerson