Lavender Lupines
By: Author: J Bakken

During a visit to the Maritimes in July, 2005, I quickly fell in love with all the lupines growing wildly along the roads and by the ocean. They are just one of the many reasons I enjoyed the scenic beauty of Canada's East Coast. We would be driving along and then a burst of pink, lavender, and deep purple lupines would be waving in the wind beckoning us to stop and enjoy their beauty. That we did...immensely! They were everywhere...in Nova Scotia, in New Brunswick, and in Prince Edward Island. They were brilliant and I captured many close up photographs of them. Sometimes the backdrop would be a field, sometimes it was red sand, and sometimes it was a rocky coastline with a small fishing boat tied up.
The lupines were not the only flower growing wild and free in the Maritime provinces. My mom fell in love with all the rosebushes growing everywhere...along the road as we drove, near a museum that we stopped to visit, or by on the road to a lighthouse.
The Maritimes has a great deal of natural beauty, especially the flowers of every hue growing wild for all to enjoy (and photograph).

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