I chose to post this picture because it looks perfect. It looks like a picture that comes preloaded on a camera, a desktop backgroud, or phone. I took this picture when I visited Spain this past summer in the parque de laberint (maze). It was an average little pond, containing water lillies, leaves, algae, bugs, the whole works. I zoomed in ion this one perfect flower and was thrilled with the picture I got. Its simple, but to me its beautiful. Lillies have always been one of my favorite flowers. Currently in another class I'm taking (Math 103 although I'm a senior I'm just now taking it) We're studying Fibonacci's numbers and how he used flowers to show sequential numbers. The fibonacci sequence is

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ,13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ..... The sequence continues with this pattern. The patten is infinite, it can go on forever. If you haven't figured it out, (or have never learned the fibonacci sequence) it is simple. You add the two previous numbers to get the next number in the sequence. Starting at 0, o + 1 equals 1, 1 +1 equals 2, 2 + 1 equals 3, 3 + 2 equals 5, etc. Fibonacci sequence also works in nature. Its referred to as the "laws of nature" If you take the time to count the petals of a flower, (which most people don't do) you'll notice that the flower always have the same number of petals (assuming it none fall off). If you take a number of different species of flowers and count the petals you'll notice all of the flowers contain a number from fibonacci's sequence. Why this is true, I'm not sure, whether its coincidental, or maybe I haven't gotten that far in my math class yet (or haven't been paying close enough attention) I find it fascinating. The one petaled flower is the white calla lily, 2 petaled flower is the euphorbia, and then the flower most people are familiar with that contain more than 2 petals such as the daisy contain 21 petals...every single daisy of its kind will always follow the same sequence of 21 petals. The core of a daisy contains 21 florets circling counterclockwise, and 34 forets ciricling clockwise. The water lily, (pictured above) contains 34 petals. It will always contain 34 petals. It will always follow the same sequence.

Although it was not required of us, I posted another picture just for viewing pleasure of the pond where I found the water lily. This is just a small part of the parque de laberint.