We LOVE Mountain Laurel! It always blooms around the lake near Mother’s Day. Every year we cruise the lake searching for giant bunches of them hanging all over rock bluff walls. We’re sure missing our moms right now during quarantine. One still works in healthcare at age 74, and the other is retired in South GA in her 80s. Quarantine causes us to reflect deeply as nature unfolds totally uninhibited while we remain under orders to #shelterinplace from an invisible enemy. It’s all been quite strange...so we sure connected to this photographer’s words of wisdom at this time, read below. 📷 @madolinemarkham ・・・ “Quarantine life is a life of extremes: the stunning blooms of spring, the things that terrify us and the things that drive us crazy, how much we cling to the beliefs and people we hold most dear, and how much I want to fully live in the gifts of today and fight not to let them be tainted by the fear of tomorrow. << Some thoughts as I noticed for the first time how mountain laurel blooms flood my parents’ property for a small April window.” - @madolinemarkham #openyoureyes #mountainlaurel #quarantinereflection 〰️〰️🌸💕〰️〰️ #smithlakeflowers #smithlakebeauty #smithlaketraditions #flowers #lake #lakelife #alabama #alabamalakes #alabamalife #smithlakecommunity #smithlakesocial #lakeliving #lakeside #lewissmithlake #lifeonthelake #lifeonsmith #livinglakelife #livelifelakeside #visitsmithlake #smithlake #smithlakeal #smithlakepix #smithlakelife #smithlakemagazine #thelakesidelifemagazine #thelakesidelife (at Smith Lake, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_d3U_Alsqy/?igshid=1rd4lz9mp1v90
