I took a hike by the homestead, and found some nice plants.

I took the day, transferred prepping supplies, and did some repairs out at the homestead today. It's mid October, and I decided to take a walk by the lake; just to relax a little. I didn't expect to find much in bloom, but early on, I was surprised!

There were flowers and fruit all over!
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I have to remember where this hibiscus is, the flowers make good tea.

These look like small daisy flowers:

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They are only 1/2" diameter, but very bright yellow!

Then I found out that their seeds heads look kind of like a tiny dandelion:
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So they aren't daisies....

I found some fruit I don't recognize:
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The leaves and structure is a fruit tree, and these fruits look like a large compound berry.

The tree is bearing well:
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Does anyone know what these are? I'd love to know, they look tasty!

These plants look like small cucumbers:
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This caught my eye because it looked like a cluster of cucumber bananas.

This grass had seed clusters 4 inches long:
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They were very soft too, I might transplant these for landscaping plants.

This little treasure was smaller than 1/2":
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Such perfection in a flower that no one normally sees...GOD is quite the artist!

This purple cascade of flowers are tiny:
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1/8" across, but they run down their stem like hollyhocks! They were worth a second look, considering that this is a weed I'm sure....

They almost look like miniature morning glories:
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The veining in the flowers with white really sets them off!

This one looks like a small pansy:
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But it was blooming on a fern! The wind was picking up, causing movement that made pictures difficult.

This weed is an overachiever:
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There were hundreds of individual flowers covering every stem!

You have to get real close to see single flowers:
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These were the smallest flowers I saw today, with the entire cluster 3/8" or 1 cm across. As you can see, they look like diminutive lilys.

It was a refreshing walk, that improved my Outlook on the entire day!



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Great finds.

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Thanks, it was a nice hike! I sure would like to know what that fruit is.

🤠💗🤕

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