2016.05.22 Sunday: Queen Anne's Lace with a painterly texture applied to the background.
This small cluster of Queen Anne's Lace recently spread over to my yard from a neighbor's ...To me, the flower clusters resemble a beautifully-detailed snowflake.
Whenever I see it, I always admire the gorgeous deep red center petal that contrasts so beautifully to the white of the blossom. In folklore, this represents the blood of Queen Anne.
Queen Anne's Lace is a quite interesting and delicately-beautiful plant, although it is rather invasive. It is also known as Wild Carrot; the carrots that we eat today were once cultivated from it.
Queen Anne's Lace is the main host plant for Swallowtail butterflies ...which probably explains why we have so many of these beauties fluttering around our yard each summer.
Queen Anne's Lace (unfortunately) closely resembles the deadly Poison Hemlock plant. Characteristics that distinguish it from its poisonous relative are 1) the red center, and 2) Queen Anne's Lace has hairy stems.
Although I probably won't let them take up residence in my yard, for the moment I am enjoying their beauty.
You captured the lovely details so well, and your creative processing does make it look like a painting! I really enjoyed your commentary...such interesting information!
May 25th, 2016
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