It was hard to miss the colorful flowers that bloomed everywhere in Scotland. From one street to another flower baskets and planters hung outside restaurants or from private home windows. It didn't matter if it was a tourist area or an area far away from the city, flowers were in unexpected places.
I could have very well just spent our entire trip just taking flower photos-there were that many. And even the ones I took many came back blurry. We were often in a hurry to get to our destinations that had we stopped for every flower we would have missed castles and mountain views.
From Ulapool to Mallaig there were flowers...
in shoes...
in gardens and on walls...
and, of course in places where Queen Elizabeth visits.
Claude Monet said "I must have flowers, always, and always." I think he was on to something, that we should be around flowers for good reasons.
Flowers can heal, inspire, feed humans and insects, and aid in a plants reproduction by enticing pollinators. The therapeutic and medicinal effects they have are fascinating to read about in books and online studies. Certainly a person could live forever and still never know everything there is to know about the life of every flower; each are individually different-yet so much the same.
