Milkweed

Months ago I wrote a World of Good post about a group that was encouraging people to plant milkweed for the sake of the Monarch butterflies. I bought some and they've begun to bloom. Like most plants with tiny flowers, they are very difficult to photograph with an auto-focus digital camera. I played around for a while and finally ended up with this shot as my favorite. I had to bring the plant indoors and push it up against a wall so the camera would focus properly. The flowers are just too small for the camera to see when it tries to calculate the range of the subject.