Shadow and I Go Walking: Wildflowers!

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Scott Abbott

für Anne und Zarko…dankbar für die Freundschaft

Shadow and I on the switchbacks above our town (Woodland Hills)

milk vetch
paintbrush
woodland star
false solomon’s seal
wild roses and mallow ninebark
wild roses
mountain bluebells
chokecherries
larkspur
wild roses … bright blooms along the whole trail
goat’s beard
Shadow smells what I can’t see
lupine
western wallflower
oneflower helianthus
thimbleberry
wild onion
looking southeast from the end of our trail…dead trees from a wildfire
looking west
looking north

About Scott Abbott

I received my Ph.D. in German Literature from Princeton University in 1979. Then I taught at Vanderbilt University, BYU, and Utah Valley State College. At Utah Valley University, I directed the Program in Integrated Studies for its initial 13 years and was also Chair of the Department of Humanities and Philosophy for three years. My publications include a book on Freemasonry and the German Novel, two co-authored books with Zarko Radakovic (REPETITIONS and VAMPIRES & A REASONABLE DICTIONARY, published in Serbo-Croatian in Belgrade and in English with Punctum Books), a book with Sam Rushforth (WILD RIDES AND WILDFLOWERS, Torrey House Press), a "fraternal meditation" called IMMORTAL FOR QUITE SOME TIME (University of Utah Press), and translations of three books by Austrian author Peter Handke, of an exhibition catalogue called "The German Army and Genocide," and, with Dan Fairbanks, of Gregor Mendel's important paper on hybridity in peas. More famously, my children are in the process of creating good lives for themselves: as a model and dance/yoga studio manager, as a teacher of Chinese language, as an ecologist and science writer, as a jazz musician, as a parole officer, as a contractor, as a seasonal worker (Alaska and Park City, Utah), and as parents. I share my life with UVU historian Lyn Bennett, with whom I have written a cultural history of barbed wire -- THE PERFECT FENCE (Texas A&M University Press). Some publications at http://works.bepress.com/scott_abbott/
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