This is the part we normally walk past without noticing. Of course, as I’ve written over and over again, most people don’t notice anything at all. But this is a very important part of the cycle. These were geraniums, so thick and lush that they seemed like a huge, solitary bloom. That was their initial phase, the one that attracts us to them. I feel closer to geraniums than any other flower. But this, the going to seed, not my appreciation, is why there were flowers in the first place. It’s not as pretty as we like things to be. These have been partly covered in spider webs and non-geranium leaves are seeking a foothold. What we have here is mass reproduction on a scale incomprehensible when compared to the human. This was a stunning display of geraniums a month ago. Today it is a stunning display of what flowers are all about.