Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Trifolium ciliolatum

Normally, this picture would be the one I would choose to show for the main image of this flower, but the image from above is so crazy looking that I wanted to show both pictures as main images. :) I think this is one of the most interesting flowers on our property! :)

When processing my flower pictures, I realized that this is an upright view of the Foothill Clover I posted a few days ago. I thought it was interesting to see how this flower looks before it falls over! :)

This crazy thing is a flower, shown from directly above! Below is an image from the side to show what this unusual clover looks like. Isn't it interesting and different?! When I first saw this flower, I thought it must be dying because it seems like it's falling over. But upon closer inspection I discovered that it grows this way, like a mop! Amazing! Foothill Clover is native to the Pacific Northwest and can be found from southern Washington to Baja, California, where it can be found in meadows and open woods. This flower has a unique feature of blossoming upright but then tipping over to assume its unusual "mop" shape.. It was once a common food eaten by Native Americans. If you would like to know more about this flower, Wiki has a tiny source here and includes a picture of this flower before it flops over into its "mop" shape: Wiki: Foothill Clover (Trifolium ciliolatum)

Here's a closer view of this pretty flower...I think it looks like a mop! I discovered this flower last year and managed to get some really wonderful pictures, including one of my all-time favorites! Scroll down to see them! :)

A sprig of grass kept popping in front of my lens while I was taking pictures of the Foothill Clover blossoms, and then I noticed how beautiful it looked with sunshine causing it to glow. I like this picture so much that I can't decide which is the better choice for my 365! (If you compare this picture to my 365 image, you'll see the pair of blossoms are in both! :D)

A couple of days ago I noticed that one of my favorite clover species was in full bloom next to our shop, so this morning I marched over without taking more than half a dozen pictures on the way! I was determined because I love these flowers and hoped to get some nice images to share! Happily, there is a very steep hill where the clover was growing so I could get some very low angles without flattening myself on the ground! Instead, I sprawled on the hill and tried not to blind myself as I got the sun behind the flowers. As I was taking pictures, I found a sprig of grass in the way of my lens and it turned into a lovely subject as well! Sir James Matthew Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Wikipedia: J. M. Barrie