Also blazing stars, gayfeathers, and wandflowers. All plants, colorfully named. Providing a little exercise in taxonomic names vs. common names.
The fried eggs come from Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, who posted this on her Facebook page yesterday:
(#1) EDZ: “Portrait mode makes fried egg flowers even more absurd” (by erasing the flower stem, so that the flower appears to be floating in the air)
The fairy wands I came across at Palo Alto’s Gamble Gardens this morning:
(#2) Angel’s (fishing) rods, wand flowers, or fairy wands
