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Spring in the South: About to Bloom
The wild pear trees (and tame ones) busted out with white blooms in Alabama last week as we experienced a wave of summer weather in February. The blooms became more and more beautiful as I zoomed in until I captured the center of an unfurling dance. The stamen (purple anthers, the bending white filaments) surrounding the golden stigma and style of the pistil. All about an 1/8". (And yes, I had to look up the anatomy of a flower to figure that all out.)
Spring in the South: About to Bloom
The wild pear trees (and tame ones) busted out with white blooms in Alabama last week as we experienced a wave of summer weather in February. The blooms became more and more beautiful as I zoomed in until I captured the center of an unfurling dance. The stamen (purple anthers, the bending white filaments) surrounding the golden stigma and style of the pistil. All about an 1/8". (And yes, I had to look up the anatomy of a flower to figure that all out.)