Many Views

Queen Anne's Lace

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I love the Queen Anne's Lace around here!!  It looks like floating white clouds in a field.  :)  It's so enchanting.  So many little insects also love this flower and I have seen many species of wasps, bee, beetles, gnats and unknown things with wings.  

I like the pink tint of the outside flower clusters on this one.  

Now here is where I must explain something.  This picture(I do believe) is not Queen Anne's Lace but Hemlock.  Hemlock looks extremely similar to QAL but it has a fatal poison.  For that reason we never pick QAL just in case we are wrong and accidently get some Hemlock in there. 

I had fun identifying this wasp.  I've have seen before and I wondered what it was.  I found out that it's a Spider Wasp.  It eats...well... spiders!  I also read that he can deliver a very painful sting.... I'm glad I didn't disturb him while I took this picture... :)  

That's it for now.  I shall probably end up having a ton of pictures of QAL before the summer is up just because they are so pretty.  :)  

Many Views - Continued

I really would have liked these pictures to be in the first post I did on the dandelion.  I'm not sure why I didn't include them...

I used different back-rounds and lighting for these.  Two are taken in sunset lighting and one is taken with a storm coming(and what a storm it was!!!).  

Some little spider has decided to launch a silk from the dandelion to the blade of grass.  

The picture will also tell you that it has been blowing hard because many of the seed heads are already gone.  

Well!  I've taken seven different photos of the same plant!!  I challenge anyone and everyone to try this!!!  

Scottish Gal