Closeup of stigmas of a flower

A closeup of stigmas of a flower, which Valerie and I think may be a lily. I don’t know much about flower names, and I didn’t show enough overall pictures to Valerie, so we we’re assuming it may be a lily. Taken on August 25th of this year, 2006, in Anaheim, California.

This was taken a few minutes after taking the picture of “The motionless Spider.”

Stigmas are those string-type things you see coming out of a flower; they’re used for depositing pollen during pollination. I was out in the backyard analyzing the spider when I decided to continue taking a few more pictures. This flower stands alone, and is the only flower of its kind in the garden as far as I know. It had a few ants on it crawling up and down every few minutes. I had to wait until it was free of any moving creature before taking this picture. I have a few more pictures of this same flower that I’ll post soon; I chose to post this first as I think it shows the stigmas on this flower the best, and Jerine liked this picture too.