Here's something you don't often see

A little girl with flowers ... very pretty. But, unusual? Very unusual, says Uncle Joe, her grandpa. Here's why: "This photo is of K. [now in ninth grade] at age 4 or 5. She was spending her annual summer vacation with us at Ten Oaks. It's rare for two reasons: When has anyone ever seen Sarah's girls when they weren't scrubbed clean, with their hair done and in their finest Sunday clothes? Second, goat's beard, also called puffballs, only comes in one color, gray. K enjoyed picking them along the road when we hiked in the evening, but soon discovered that the flowers disintegrated as soon as they were touched. So she liked it when Grandpa preserved them with fluorescent orange paint." We're glad for that explanation, or the scrapblog editor might still be plowing through her Minnesota wildflowers book looking for giant orange ball-flowers. Nice glasses there too, kid.