RANUNCULUS FLOWERS

My contribution for the Flower Friday Challenge, Thanks to Biker Bear who is hosting this flowerful challenge.
The day started bright, then came the clouds, then they went and in the afternoon it seemed a great idea to me to go to Lippoldsberg.
Since a forthnight one can take the car ferry to cross the Weser and that makes the access to this town easier for us.
It takes only minutes but I love to sit on a bench and feel the water gliding by.
We saw a row of japanese cherry trees when we reached the other side and went to take photos of course. Then we walked to the fabulous, old church, entered and stayed inside for a while.
We drove to the known garden centre (it is a tree school too and it seems they own much of the land around Lippoldsberg, everywhere one sees large fields with their trees and bushes) and I bought a sage herb, it seems to come from Italy and no wonder, it grows there so easily.
They did not have  yet Ruta graveolens, a herb that attracts the Papilio machaon butterfly. A butterfly that once in a year lands upon my buddleia flowers.
Is it asked too much to want one or two to live actually in my garden?
From the garden centre we walked a path that went uphill, till we reached the forest and then walked along the edge of it. Such wonderful views from that height. Because time flies, we descended a path back to the town and reached in time the ferry again for our crossing.
The weather stayed fine all afternoon and my cheeks are glowing.

My haiku:

Flower language
Ranunculus = You
Are rich in attractions

Read in The Language of Flowers.

And the proverb:

Flee never so fast you cannot flee your fortune.

1721  Kelly, 108.
Spoken by them who believe that all things come by fatality.