The Colorful Butterfly
Butterflies come in all the marvelous colors of the rainbow. Striking bright combinations of colors helps camouflage the developing butterfly making it hard to detect in a complicated background and distinctive patterns warn potential predators.
Still Life with Sunflower
Sunflowers, in all their colorful glory, are a happy sight to behold, but there's more to their nature than just beauty. Each sunflower's head is made of smaller flowers, each produce a seed, can self-pollinate or take pollen blown by the wind. The flower buds and young blossoms will face east in the morning and follow the sun as the earth moves during the day, a behavior called heliotropism. They grow best with about six to eight hours a day but more is even better. Flowers planted too close together will compete and not blossom to their full potential.