A very light-colored Purple Cone Flower in our front yard.

A not-yet-opened Black-Eyed Susan flower above and next to one that had been open for a number of days. From our flowerbed in the back yard.

The interior of a Star Gazer Lily displaying its copious amounts of nectar. A couple days after this shot Nate and I watched a butterfly sit at one flower for 2 minutes straight just drinking and drinking.

After the clematis flower blooms and falls away, what remains is this intricate pattern which are, in fact, the seeds