flower photography – Page 14 – don't confuse the narrator

idiomatic

I’m not sure if this counts as a hairy situation:

bee and clematis tangutica seed head (old man's beard)

It’s clearly not the cat’s whiskers. But it might be the bee’s knees.

textured thoughts

It’s September and the summer is drifting away. At times, the year seems content to grow old gracefully.

Sometimes it seems to put up more of a fight. Continue reading

waspish

Do not be deceived.

There are many imitations.
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As I understand it (confirmed from doing some reading on the Wildflowers-and-weeds website) lots of flowers such as thistles and dandelions are not really single flowers, but composite flower heads made up of many tiny individual florets.

summery II

Another summery picture to mark the fact that although yesterday was the longest day, today the sun will actually set later.**

As Rimbaud said in his poem Roman: Les tilleuls sentent bon dans les bons soirs de juin! – lindens smell sweet on fine June evenings. What he didn’t say is that they smell sweet all day long.
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