128/365: "Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower." ~ John Harrigan [Explore]

I am constantly surprised at the amazing sights I find on our property, and this is one of them, which I was delighted to find this morning! This is a top-down view of a flower called a "Blow-Wife", and the orange bits around the outside are its blossom petals. The odd inner parts are tightly closed "parachutes" of the seeds. When this flower is pollinated and the seeds inside form, the sepals will fold back and an enormous seed ball of glimmering silver "snowflakes" will be exposed. It's amazing to see. For more pictures showing the "snowflakes", click on the side view image below!

John Harrigan is a British film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and occultist. He is the founder and Artistic Director of FoolishPeople and co-founder of the Weaponized Imprint.

Harrigan's work centres around the creation of film, ritual theatre and immersive events which aim to raise a numinous experience within the witness. He founded FoolishPeople in 1989, taking its name from The Fool major arcana of the tarot.Wikipedia: John Harrington

Explored on Flickr on May 8, 2013. Highest position #346.