Tiny Tuesday : : Gallardia

I just had to try to get some sort of macro of this flower which is always blooming no matter the season.  It is not really a tiny flower but a close up of its center reminds me once again that it is the tiny details that pass us by unless we take the time to examine things carefully. I love the way that out of the riot of tiny buds in the center unfurl a smaller and more organized circle of petals

It seems that one can know a lot about a few things or a little about a lot of things. I have known a few of the former…Edward Teller, who taught physics for dummies in college, and B.K.S Iyengar with whom I studied yoga in India come to mind…and my experience with them is that they knew so much about one subject that they had a very hard time living in the 'real' world and teaching 'normal' people. I I have also known people in the latter category, people who are so scattered among so many interests and obligations that they too have a very time keeping to a schedule or concentrating very fully on any given thing.

Somewhere, there is a happy medium. Perhaps that is one of the gifts of growing older…having the experience to know what is important and the time to concentrate on it.