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I have not taken part in Skywatch Friday in a couple of weeks now and have missed doing so. I just love photos of the sky. While out watering my garden yesterday morning I was kneeling down to reach some of my containers that needed a drink and happened to look up to see this pretty sight. I never get tired of peering through the lacey bronze fennel that is self-sowing with abandon around the garden lately. It is such a pretty culinary herb with medicinal benefits. I am not a huge fan of its anise flavor but it sure adds that certain oomph to tomato sauce!
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Oh, I love this! I love to grow fennel, but for some reason mine died last year. I couldn’t find the copper kind this year, so I’m waiting until I can find some. Makes a beautiful backdrop of the sky.
I LOVE this blue
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Cynthia~~ Beautiful photo. The blue sky is so refreshing and with the hillside outline…breathtaking! I’ve got three towering clumps of bronze fennel and it is indeed a wonderful plant.
I am not a huge fan of Fennel but it sure adds something to your blue sky shot.
A friend and I were at a restaurant and had soup with waaay too much fennel and we started coughing and now whenever one of us has a wheezy cough we call it ‘that dreaded fennel cough’. ha!
The fennel is so beautiful against that fantastic blue sky, great photo.
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Very beautiful. I love the simplicity of it.
Beautiful.
Very beautiful!
Happy weekend!
Wow, what a pretty view!
Lovely photo!!
Beautiful photo!! Your fennel is so tall! I love the way umbels look.
You’re right, that is very pretty. Funny how some of the nicer pics show up when we’re doing something at a bit different angle.
Cynthia, what a beautiful plant against that gorgeous blue sky. Our skies haven’t looked so brilliant in a while that I’ve noticed. Cloudy, gray, fallish skies around here lately. Hope it warms up soon!