Dear readers, can you guess what this is? An alien landscape, you say? Why yes, it does look quite like the weirdly pocked surface of some far off, mysterious planet. With a gleaming round space pod just landed in the middle of the bumpy green landscape.
As you've undoubtedly guessed already, this is not at all a glimpse of a far off world . Rather this is the image of something close at hand, a rather common earth occurrence, its humble beauty perhaps taken for granted. Tis the closeup of the seed pod of the wonderfully multipurposed lotus flower. We recently got to try the fresh lotus seed, plucked straight from the pod, for the first time. Man-oh, it was divine! Seriously, I would have never guessed that it was so good.
