there are many ways to go to seed

This is a study in contrasts: two wildly varied ways for a plant to go to seed. Damn, I love seedheads. The ingenuity. The desperation. The variety. The urgency. It all makes me smile. But mostly, it is the trail-and-error creative expression that 500 million years of evolution can produce that I like best.

winter garden stems: daylily and prairie grass seedheads