Morning Eye Candy: Windflower

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 24 2012, by Matt Newman

Why do they call it an anemone, anyway? At a glance, the flower doesn’t seem to have much in common with the seagoing variety. But according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word comes from the Greek for “daughter of the wind.” Most sea anemones seem to fit that description, waving as they do in the ocean currents, so I suppose a flower bobbing in the breeze is close enough.

Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen