A SUNDAY CAPER -- (FLOWER)

I had no specific blip plans today. It's Sunday, after all, but I wanted to do what I call an "art shot." You know, dramatic (if amateurish) fireworks via PhotoShop. Then I saw that the caper plants are beginning to flower and I know that most people have never seen a caper outside of a jar.

The plants grow in impossible places and seem to prefer stone walls with cement backing. I don't know where they find nourishment. Beetles and ants are very fond of them. In the autumn, when the seed pods have burst, the ants crowd round to eat the sticky substance the seed pod contains. The ants then unwittingly carry a seed or two away and this is how the plants find a place to grow.

There are more buds visible on this plant. They are ready to pick and eat or pickle or put under salt. I don't do any of that; I let them bloom. I buy capers in the supermarket. We do, however, allow others to pick enough to pickle.

Caper buds ready to pick

Another with both flower and buds -- with a visiting ant. Caper flower and big buds