Oklahoma Wildflowers

While wildflowers dance in spring breezes and sunshine we have much hope.

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Purple coneflower is one of my favorites especially when topped with a butterfly ballerina. Coneflowers also come in white and yellow. One of the prettiest is white with pink speckled.

The coneflowers wear silky skirts and sparkly tiaras and they dance to the music of spring. They’re in no hurry and stick around to the first days of summer. Butterflies and bumblebees are their partners. They bend and bow and curtsy in the wind.

These ballerina dancers spin and twirl in big patches on Oklahoma roadsides. They give a big show in prairies—on meadow stages to scissortail and blackbird music.

“Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! Lord, they walk in the light of your face. In Your name they rejoice all the day.”

Psalm 89:15-16

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