After looking at this photograph—but not while taking the picture—I imagined that the spiderwort (Tradescantia sp.) growing in our side yard on April 1st was a flower tower. The long green leaning "leg" on the right is a stem, while the symmetric one on the left is a leaf. Likewise for the two shorter green segments inside that triangular frame at the bottom.

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Yesterday afternoon WordPress popped up a message I'd understandably never seen before: "Congratulations! Your site, Portraits of Wildflowers, passed 500,000 all-time views."

 

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