I got tired of fiddling with this:
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So I went outside. How I love it that while the gardeners keep the lawn mowed and the leaves blown, they pretty much leave the wild vegetation in a natural state. Otherwise they would have weed-whacked this lovely away.
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Amazing how beautiful a weed can be. Nice job.
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Not sure that it was a weed, rather some natural vegetation that grows on our site. We do the same thing at home. We let the dead flowers be so they can go to seed and spread.
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Wonderful – i truly love that dead flower shot. Beautiful color tones and light.
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This appears to be a thistle of some sort. I’m glad to see someone else recoding the less obviously pretty forms of plants. Here’s one of my takes on a Texas thistle last year:
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/it-seems-a-metalsmith-was-here-before-rembrandt/
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Actually, this really is a dried/dead wild flower. I’ve shot the same sort of thing in my yard. On Day 5 I shot another kind of dried flower at my work, and it is most definitely a flower. It is so dry here that flowers often stay on the bushes or stems and just lose all color and become like straw. https://neophytephotographer.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/day-5/
Here is a thistle that I shot in my backyard in the summer.
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But then again, I’m no horticulturist…so I could be wrong! Thanks for stopping by.
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Happily there’s no contradiction in what you and I are saying, because thistles are wildflowers. In my link I showed you a very late stage of the flower head, when it has dried out and is coming apart, but see how different the Texas thistle looks in earlier stages:
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/texas-thistle/
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/close-view-of-texas-thistle-flowers/
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Okay, after looking at your blog, you are likely the expert. Thistle or flower, I really liked it and I’m glad you and I share the same love of the ignored.
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Pretty!
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