Going for the gold
Viguiera dentata; click for greater detail.
“The landscape view is nice, but can you give us a closer look at those goldeneye flowers that sprang up in the bed of Bull Creek?”
Sure.
The brown near the center of the picture is a dry sycamore leaf that had fallen into the goldeneye. In the bottom left corner of the image you’ll see a few bright green leaves of a new sycamore tree springing up.
© 2011 Steven Schwartzman
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