Because someone, possibly me, needs some tiny pretty things today. I give you a flower.
This tiny berry plant looks almost like strawberries. They were growing like weeds, taking over my parent’s back lawn.
This moth was quite happy to let me photograph while he napped.
This is not tiny, just pretty. My parent’s back patio. California is lovely and tropical.
The plant that looks almost like strawberries is in fact a wild strawberry plant. People use them for groundcover. The berries are edible, and often surprisingly sweet, though you do have a greater proportion of seed to fruit than domesticated berries.
Now I wish I’d sampled one. I just assumed that wild berry = poisonous.
In general that’s a safe way to live. Unless you know for sure it’s safe, you shouldn’t eat anything wild. My dad was Scoutmaster for years, though, and loved to get out his edible plants book and take people around the neighborhood or into the woods and see what was safe to eat. I also had a project in 8th grade Life Science class where I had to collect, dry, mount and identify something like 50 flowering plants and trees, and a lot of that stuck with me.