Japanese anemone. This is a large and established plant. It's on the one-mile loop I walk nearly every day. I look forward to enjoying it every September.
I find it so interesting to notice how my brain works. When I'm in picture-taking mode, I am not in analyzing mode. I know perfectly well what it looks like when the anemone goes to seed, but that knowledge never came to the forefront as I took these pics..........
Look at the cool seed pods!
These seedpods do not belong to the anemone, though they are in the middle of it. I remember a vague sensation at the time I took this pic that the leaves near the seedpods were wrong (look at the leaf, top center), but it stayed a vague impression, as I concentrated on capturing the excellent shapes of these seed pods. The ridged sides (darker at the top, lighter at the bottom, the divisions on top, the way the green points break into two points when it's riper (and how dark the riper ones are).........
Fuzzy!
On "the big screen," doing the post-processing, my brain in analyzing mode, I knew these did not belong to the anemone, and I began to want to go back and look at these plants, *right now*, and pay a lot more attention to this plant.....
I was glad to see there are still flowers on it -- see the yellow one, just below the highest seedpod? Flowers are a big help when identifying plants!
I will pay much closer attention the next time I walk by this yard!
Back to the anemone -- one of the things I find interesting about it is that a whole lot of flower buds sprout from one stem. Here you can see a lot of stuff arising from the same point, including a flower bud (upper right), a newly-opened flower (lower left) and a couple of spent flowers on their way to being seedy (the green balls). Notice, also, the leaves where all those stems erupt -- totally different from the leaf on the cool-seedpod plant.
Here's a closer look at one of the anemone's spent flowers -- this doesn't look anything like those spiky things we looked at above!
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