the trap, so easy to fall into, of trite

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[OT from cottage renovations]

ah, yes, the dandelion seed head.  look at one and what do you see?  Expo '67 in Montreal, the Star Wars^® Death Star, the AT&T logo, a natural construction that surely was engineered by Buckminster Fuller himself. 

such a tempting target for the lens. 
and trite beyond all endurance. 

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M^cCathran Hall

but is it not the very nature of temptation that now and then it can overcome any amount of prudence? 

Taraxacum officinale

looking directly upsun with the chunky dark backdrop of one of the Grove's solid oaks, the seed clusters polarise the sunlight.  trying to resist, my will is slipping, and suddenly ... click

damn.