Happy Sunday. I am not sure if Vervain is classed as a wildflower or as a weed, but it certainly makes an attractive show along the shores of Plains Pond at the edge of the Kennebunk Plains. Plains Pond was evidently once considerably larger. The damn seems well broken, but it is still an interesting place…a wide, somewhat marshy, spot in Cold Brook as it flows down into the Mousam River.

This is a different kind of macro…taking advantage of the wide angle macro mode on the Coolpix to frame the tiny flowers against the backdrop of the pond and the pines behind.

Nikon Coolpix P500 at 32mm equivalent field of view, Close-Up mode, f3.7 @ 1/800th @ ISO 160.

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.

And for the Sunday thought: well, obviously, one man’s weed is another man’s wildflower, and the setting is all important. Put this where I have commonly seen it…in cracks in asphalt sidewalks or pushing up through paved driveways…and it certainly is a weed, no matter how pretty the tiny flowers are. Out here a pond-side, it’s beauty is enough to make it precious. The eye of spirit sees it the same in either setting, of course. Wide eyed in wonder is the way to see the world.