flowers

[egg_shell]

I've started carrying a magnifying glass with me when I go out for a walk so I can look at flowers close up. I nearly always let out a little involuntary exclamation when I see what's really there. There is so much intricate detail in flowers - amazing! I brought home a sprig of Dame's Rocket tonight to see if I could get some closeup details with

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[salariman]

👍

[mallorys_camera]

Dame's Rocket is a lovely, lovely flower.

[egg_shell]

They are going crazy around here this year. I love that there are banks of them everywhere.

[mallorys_camera]

Yeah. I've been watching them migrate east for the last decade or so. Used to be that I would only see them around Ithaca (roughly the NY Southern Tier), but they've spread to the Hudson Valley now.

This is the fairy dell I used to walk Milo the dog through every morning when I lived in Ithaca:

[egg_shell]

Nice! Good name: Fairy Dell.

[rhodielady_47]

The tiny flowers are wonderful works of art and well worth going to the trouble of magnifying them enough so that you can see them!

:^)