Freesia 3, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger.

It rained hard over night. The kids were up early, and the sun came out bright through the clouds. Before we drove the kids to school, I was out photographing this freesia. Once again, a world in a flower. In this photo, you can clearly see the “flight path”–markings intended to direct dazed or not-so-bright insects into pollen central.

I didn’t know that freesias belonged to the iris family, did you?

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