Unhappy snaps

A mysterious weed has sprung up in the new daffodil bed, now getting on for three feet in height, with half a dozen or more flower shoots. With the top four or five inches of each decorated with neat vertical lines of black flies, with the flies perhaps a millimeter or so apart from each other. Not the dense black mass, of the sort one gets on broad beans, at all. Maybe the ants from the nest visible at the base of the plant have got the situation under control and have the black flies in farm. The nest once noticed at reference 2.

No idea what the terminal brown balls are going to turn into, if indeed they are going to progress to proper flowers at all.

The telephone could not manage the bright light of the morning, in which this snap was taken, and did no better in the dull light of the afternoon. Not least because it makes the lawn adjacent look more like a badly dug over vegetable patch. Perhaps Russ, the chap first mentioned at reference 1, has a point when he says that no machines can yet match the eye in dealing with big ranges of brightness.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/roseview.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/ants-progress.html.