We think of the pleasure of communing with flowers as simple: simple joy in exuberant colors and odors. But there’s nothing simple structurally about a flower when you look at the flower closely—as in this photograph of the inner zinnia.
Here’s another view of the zinnia flower within a flower, a view of the flower from farther out, and (below) another take on the inner zinnia flower and (far below) a coy zinnia peeking out through some foliage:
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