Tiny and One Big

I took a walk this morning and found tiny things ... things you could easily miss if you were preoccupied with getting to work.
I was not.
I'm playing hooky with Bear (using a day of personal leave).
We have a long night ahead of us with the distant football game and Bear needed a break ahead of that, plus I have so much #$%@^# redundant accountablility stuff to do for Uncle local/state/federal government that I had to make my own planning day just to do some of the online stuff.
Wow ... that was a long sentence, I hope you took a break in there somewhere ... I sure didn't leave you one.

When in doubt, it's an aster ... hope I'm right and not making an aster of myself.

Pardon my finger in each shot, it's just a size reference so you can get a feel for the delicacy of these wildflowers growing where we don't mow.

This one escapes me ...
I suppose being tiny is one way of picking your pollinators. A bumblebee would ride this flower to the ground like my son when he does skin the cat on a young pine tree.
(I taught him that and now most of my young pines have suspicious curves)

Suspicious curves ... that's kind of ... what was I talking about?


Here's the queen of tiny flowers ... Blue Curls.

Palafoxia shows she has pretty curls too.

Just in case the size of the flower matters to some of you, here is a true sunflower!