A flower a day ...

I liked the color of Jet's flowers too,@CinnamonSugar, but I also liked the idea of wildflowers (especially with gratuitous doggy pics). So I looked through some photos and settled on these of Giant Fennel (Ferula communes). Much like other fennels except much bigger with nice, tight spherical flower clumps on very tall stalks. No doggies here though, just me.

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Yours truly for scale:

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Well here is a wildflower I enjoy seeing near the beach in piles of sand, Sand Verbena. The leaves are succulent and the flowers arrayed spherically. The secret to their adaption is the regular fog.

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Couldn't find a good close up of the flower among my pics but here is one from the Internet I'd have been proud to take.

Composition with Sand Verbena by Alan, on Flickr
 
MarkD said:
Startlingly beautiful!
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This is one of my favourite photos such an incredible mass of Daffodils...

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.


The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:


For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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