Thistle Seedhead

I love late summer and fall photo opportunities. On Sunday found a thistle seedhead in a weed patch along the road.   Tried for a close up in color and then converted to B & W to see how that would look. Wanted to include leaf shape incase I use for garden journaling as helps with plant identification.  
Camera+ HDR-edits PSE.  Also used color variation to decrease blue since taken in late afternoon.  

Red Clover CU - Neighborhood

The late afternoon sun was highlighting this red clover and it was calling my name to take a close up image.  Too bad there was not a bee on it. Camera+ HDR Macro mode.with Square Format. I increased highlights, sharpened, cloned areas of foliage to eliminate some tiny white specks, and applied vignette in PSE 11.

By some red clover (Trifolium pratense) is considered a weed in your lawn, but it is knowm to have some medicinal benefits. It is a berbaceous species of a flowering plant in the bean family, Fabaceae. It is native to Europe, Western Asia and Northwest Africa, but planted and naturalized in many other regions.   For more info see en.wikipedia.org