Samadhi at the burdock patch in late April. Burdock leaves can grow nearly waist-high here.

Samadhi, our standard poodle, peeks over a giant burdock plant in the medicine garden, mouth slightly open in a curious-but-cautious posture

Photographed April 23, 2026 in Gaia Devi Stillwagon's medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas's Ouachita foothills.

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