It was very full but a good day.
I had a great talk with John, some wonderful fellowship and prayer together. This afternoon we went flying- John took me up in his Beechcraft Bonanza and Maurie went up for his first flying lesson.
Flying in a small plane is very different to the commercial planes! You have a very up close and personal relationship with the pilot.
Below are photos of a white flower growing on some kind of vine growing on the ground, a windmill at John's property and a few of the photos I took on our little flight from Rockhampton to Yeppoon, along the coast and back in to Rocky.
I think your flower might be a "Passion Flower". I had them growing in my sunroom in Canada. My neighbor told me the story behind the flower - I got this from the internet:"Passion" does not refer to love, but to the Passion of Christ on the cross. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries discovered this flower and adopted its unique physical structures as symbols of Crucifixion. For example: the 72 radial filaments (or corona) represent the Crown of Thorns. The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles. The top 3 stigmata represent the 3 nails and the lower 5 anthers represent the 5 wounds. The flower has been given names related to this symbolism throughout Europe since that time. In Spain, it is known as Espina de Cristo (Christ's Thorn). In Germany it was once known as Muttergottes-Schuzchen (Mother-of-God's Star).
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing that Lois. Who'd have thought it was such a "sacred" plant?
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