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I should be less credulous.

I noticed in the photo I'd taken the other day that the stalk in the background looked spattered, as if by paint. This morning I went back and looked at the flower again. It's closed up now, and you can clearly see where the paint hit and where it didn't.

Ah well!

ETA: To see what genuine pigmented Queen Anne's Lace looks like, check out this photo by

clarentine on Flickr:

I discovered this freaky Queen Anne's lace blossom growing beside a very-little-traveled road. It's the sort of thing that would be used in augury, a prophecy that can't bode well. As

stillnotbored remarked, little-traveled roads are great places to dispose of inconvenient bodies. The blossom is proclaiming that the truth will out?

And here are my favorites, the foxtail grasses, golden macro-paramecia, playing in the sun.

ETA: Nope, not for real--see next entry. If only the spray painter knew how well their prank succeeded!

Current Music: protein music: lysosome C

There are galaxies, many many galaxies, forming a bobbing, swaying screen between my backyard and my front. These galaxies smell like honey, and I push through them to get down to the laundry line or the compost bin.

But seriously, don't the umbels of queen anne's lace . . .