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These last two days have been pretty depressing. There's little to add to what's been said here already, and I've done most of the venting I can bear in comments already. jathomas's take on events is pretty good reading (and to think I nearly unfriended him when he hadn't posted in eight months).

So what can I offer you in this time of turmoil? Macro photos of gazania. I know, I've done it before, but I love these flowers, and there are a lot of them outside the library, and it might lower your blood pressure to look at pretty things. I'm splitting them across two posts because I used a computer on dialup last week in Wisconsin and it nearly killed me. I know you don't all have broadband.

I really love gazania. They have these paintbrush-perfect stripes and detailed little blocks of color at the base of the petals. They're ubiquitous in San Diego as groundcover, and I don't think they get a lot of respect in the plant world. I put my camera in macro mode and snapped these on my way to lunch. Tell me these flowers aren't extraordinary.

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Thanks for posting these. It's nice to think about something else for a few minutes! I'm envious of your photography skills as well. Occasionally I manage to take a good photo but I can never seem to get a good macro. I usually blame the camera but it's probably me! :-)

The gazanias are lovely. I've never seen one quite like the pink one; those markings are especially nice. These are popular where I live, but they don't always make it through the winter--it takes only one frost to kill a young plant.