beautiful thistles. we saw some the other day while biking on the caty trail in st charles. i went to covenant college and our mascot (as a good presbyterian college) was the scots. or should that be phrases, we were the scots (lady scot for me as a women's soccer player). anyhow, we painted a huge thistle on our soccer field and had bagpipes as special occasions.

Yeah, Sarah, I think it is cool that Covenant College honors the Scottish Presbyterian heritage in that way. I believe apocryphally that the Scots like the thistle because once when the English were sneaking up on the sleeping Scots one of the English stepped on a thistle and cried out, alerting the Scots. At least that is what the Scottish missionaries I knew in my childhood told me. Then again they also told me that the haggis was a mountain creature that had longer legs on one side of its body than the other for circling around the sides of mountains, and that the trick in catching one was to face it head on getting it to turn around and take a tumble because of its legs :)

I think thistles are beautiful particularly in contrast to a dreary day.

Those are beautiful. Wow

Hey! Wow you are a photo takin Machine!
Great work!
Jenny