we found this dried seed pod of the flower “love in the mist” on a hillside just across from a local spring, which, like perrier, produces an endless, and endlessly profitable, stream of sparkling water, called vernière. the local waters in this area supposedly have healing powers, although those powers do not appear to have crossed the road to the hillside where this flower aged into a dry and  brittle senescence.

nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist)

vernières, languedoc, france

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