Often I go by bike to get to places where I want to take pictures. On 07.08. It was a tour to search and photograph wild carrots. And I always have the mobile and I record where I came from. The GPX file of the hike can later be dragged from Komoot to the computer and used in LR to provide the images with geodata. Sometimes I plan ahead where I want to go and Komoot then serves as a navigation device.

There are currently many large, white, umbelliferous flowers on the roadside. The wild carrot is one of them and easily recognizable by its purple-black lure in the center of the white umbel. Because of its black central flower, which was in Germany called as Mohr (dark-skinned person) it became the name Mohrrübe (Rübe = turnip – Mohrrübe = carrot in English). I do not know if you have that linguistic feature in the name of the carrot like we in German have.

In England, the wild carrot is considered a wedding flower and is called there Queen Anne’s Lace, Queen Anne’s lace, because Queen Anne once made lace, crocheted or knitted modeled after the wild carrot.

Before and after flowering, the wild carrot curls up like a bird’s nest. This also distinguishes them from the poisonous hemlock or bear claw.

The wild carrot is the prototype of today’s carrot or carrot. You can eat them completely, leaves, flowers and seeds. It is a biennial plant and the white root of the annual wild carrot can even be eaten raw.

I did not eat these magical plants – I just photographed them. Herer I used the Sweet 35 with the Composer and macro-converters.