"Cardinal Flower"

am liking the pareidolia of

this painterly shot in Turners Falls, MA 

Cardinal flower is not typically in regular use in herbal medicine Lobelia inflata is. Lobelia cardinalis possesses less potency as an analgesic, antispasmodic, emetic and cartarrh with bronchial respiratory and lower digestive systems.

I took near where a camp of Native Americans...

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip's_War

"May 18, 1676, Captain William Turner of the Massachusetts Militia and a group of about 150 militia volunteers (mostly minimally trained farmers) attacked a large fishing camp of Native Americans at Peskeopscut on the Connecticut River (now called Turners Falls, Massachusetts). The colonists claimed they killed 100–200 Native Americans in retaliation for earlier Indian attacks against Deerfield and other colonist settlements and the colonial losses in the Battle of Bloody Brook. Turner and nearly 40 of the militia were killed during the return from the falls."

As it was at fishing camps just before sunrise the men were all out fishing. The camp of over 200 elders, women and children were slaughtered,was atop the cliffs that dropped down to the rapids of the river. Below the men listened to the screams.. These lands were Sacred as fishing and farming along the Connecticut. Healing intent with this photo is to send a message of recognition, understanding and consciousness into the Earth of the people...

~Love, Peace and CoCreativity~