Purple Flower

This was growing in the beaver pond at the conservation area.  Myles and I took an early morning walk around and through the paths there.  I actually let him off leash for about the 2nd time ever and he did great.  Lots of things to smell and mark as his own.  

*** Thank you to Subjunctive for identifying this as Pickerelweed.  

First steps onto the trail and the feather in the extra photos was in the middle of the path.  


“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” 
― Rumi