Last of the Flowering Teasel

Odd sort of  day at work - the embankment that stops unwelcome "visitors" getting onto the grasslands was improved today, resulting in the clearing of a lot of teasel and willowherb. Hopefully this will have already seeded the ground however and there will be a recovery next year.

There's not much left in flower, a bit of hairy willow herb, a few thistles, the pennyroyal - and onesolitary clump of teasel upon which red tailed bumbles were feeding.

The willow herb has seeded into the most amazing fractal like designs, a sort of higher dimensional geometry, a fractal pattern that goes on forever no matter how much  you magnify it.

Nature is maths, and maths is nature.

Si

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