#229 - Ryegrass

My three year old brought me one of these grass heads in her fist today, "Look mummy, it's pretty." In a whole field of waving grass she noticed one she wanted to share. But even in the same type of grass there are variants in colour, faded gold, shades of green and dusky pink. I love the sharpness of Ryegrass, it's bold, hard shapes, both curves and points, it's a contradiction.

#228 - Cornflowers

"There are worlds and worlds of ways to explain, 
to tell you how I feel,
But I am speechless, speechless, that's how you make me feel..."
(Michael Jackson - Speechless)

#227 - Bramble Sepals on Birch

I saw these enchanting, twisty, five-pointed stars caught in the brambles today, in shades of green and pink.

#226 - Meadow Grass

Our favourite place in the park is the place where it lies in curves and hollows and the wild flowers, white and gold and mauve, grow in amongst the tall grasses which blow pink and green and silver in the wind. 

 

#225 - Lesser Stitchwort on moss

More starry shapes in the meadow grass, and beautiful spindly stamens. Exquisite. 

#224 - Dock flowers

Walking through the tall grass this afternoon, the colours in the meadow were heightened by the rain... green, fawn, mauve, dove grey and all shades of pink including these gorgeous fuchsia and lime-green dock weed flowers.

#223 - St. Benedict's herb

These are the flowers that belong to those wonderfully spiky burrs in scarlet and green. I love their starriness - the five sharp pointed sepals with the neat diamonds of gold in between. An emphatic looking flower, nothing tentative or blowsy here, I keep seeing their starry faces in the hedgerows looking somehow regal despite their diminutive size.