the lord's larkspur

ok, so.....there is an idyllic ravine beside the lower door to the education building of my church.....the collective owners have allowed it to remain as nature intended....and this time of year it is abloom with purples and yellows and white.....it is separated from the church property by a fence tall enough to keep out wildflower buffs......today i was walking into church, and admiring the view, when my prayers appeared to be answered....there was a celandine (wood) poppy blooming yellow and lovely on the church side of the fence......in an area that could be weed-whacked by an un-knowing groundskeeper.......and as an added bonus, there were a few larkspur blooming at the church ended of the ravine.....down a rather steep slope...but reachable......and so after the lunch dishes were finished......i changed into my stealthiest gardening clothes.....and headed back to church with some empty pots and a digging fork to liberate those wildflowers before the mowers could do their worst.....i was practicing that little speech in case the police showed up to make their call on the fine line between liberation and downright theft.....and so i edged slowly down the steep slope ......but not slowly enough....and i slipped and slip and came down hard on my right arm.....gentle readers.....this is the lord's day so i will spare you the words i used as i ascertained the injury.....not broken!....but sore and probably bruised.....and i was getting off easy.....as if i had broken it i would have been in a ravine, out of sight.....and were it broken i could not have driven my stick-shift car to the e.r......i'd have had to walk the 3-4 blocks or so.....ah well.......and so i managed to dig up three of the dozens of clumps of larkspur.....and the single poppy plant .....and to crawl back up out of that ravine......i may have blogged that a co-worker in lincoln had already given me a few clumps of larkspur liberated from a county over.....and it could be said that i was being greedy adding more than my share of this lovely blue flower to my collection of native plants.......i will contemplate that possibility at least until my arm stops hurting....