I just discovered another advantage to the blog, one that I never in a thousand years would ever have conceived. Yesterday, I went for a walk at dawn. On the return journey, I stopped to photograph some burdock heads waving in the wind (see above). Look closely at the end of the burrs. You can see the tiny fish hook shape that permits the burr to attach itself to your clothing. The inventor of Velcro developed the product idea from an identical observation.
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