BEAUTY IS...
so very many things. This week's theme at Mama Says Om, it reminded me of a picture I took this summer of a friend's daughter. She is standing under a huge growth of Rose of Sharon, which is considered a "trash tree" but I love it. Proving yet again that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It also brings to mind these lines from the Song of Solomon:

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valley.
As the lily among the thorns,
So is my love among the daughters