unfurling

 

Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

~James Russell Lowell

 

Friday I walked by my pruned Sago Palm and saw nothing new sprouting at all, and then today there was this cornucopia of unfurling leaves, appearing so majestically and elegantly that it seemed some kind of powerful orchestral music should surely be playing to accompany their arrival.

So I grabbed my camera and took this photograph, thinking all the while that I wish my own unfurling could be as rapid, poetic, and beautiful as the Sago Palm.

~Cynthia