I saw this wisp of a cloud on a neighborhood walk with Willow last week. The hillsides are filled with these Yucca’s blooming right now. I’d like to get a little closer to one and smell the fragrance…
Our Lord’s Candle (Yucca whipplei) Agave Family. AGAVACEAE ~ The flower stalk is 4 to 8 feet tall. There is basal rosette of spine-tipped, sword-like leaves 1 to 3 feet long. The white flowers sometimes purple-tinged, appear in a terminal compound cluster up to 4 feet long. They are very fragrant and even have a pleasant taste when nibbled.
Beginning in April and continuing through July, Our Lord’s Candle blooms abundantly in Chaparral and Oak Woodland in elevations up to 2500 feet.
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The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
This is a nice peaceful scene. The flowers in the field and just a hint of a cloud in the sky. Nice Skywatch photo.
Love the name! Beautiful sky!
An impressive flower – pity we don’t have it around here
Fantastic choice you made!
Lovely colours and a very nice title
Thanks for sharing this and the story of its name, which is just lovely. God bless.
Neat shot and the plant sound very nice to… nice to see flowers featured in Sky Watch again this week.
Tom
Very beautiful – with the flower the picture is like an exclamation mark on the sky.
The plants set off by a great sky.
Please come visit mine.
great post and image, well done.
so lovely!
Gorgeous photo and great post … Love The Name!!
nice shot ~ enjoy your weekend
Love the name and the shot:)
Wonderful photo with lovely colors. And a perfect name on it too!
Have a lovely weekend:)
A marvelous scenery.
Good shot.
Wonderful shot with lovely colors!
Wonderful picture. Reminds me that the summer is all in front of ous…
Nice weekend wishes you, from Norway.
Lovely! 🙂
Delicate.
Ida
Wonderful photo 🙂
A lovely peaceful scene.A very nice Sky Watch contribution.
Well done!
Lovely!
Nice. Thanks for sharing about it as well.
Just beautiful, ellen! I never saw such a lovely plant with such a lovely name! 😀 Good photo!
Such a nice perspective.
Looks beautiful and I can smell the fragrance from your description 🙂
Beautiful sky.
I loved it.
Soft with a dreams.
JU Gioli
This is a lovely picture. It made me smile.
Wonderful picture..looks very peaceful.
– Cheers.
Seems like a great day to be out in the sun! Come see mine!
That’s beautiful, I love how the flowing is standing against the clear skies 🙂
p/s: Did you lay down real down for the shot?
This is a beautiful picture. I’m not familiar with the flower but it is lovely.
A beautiful photo! I like the composition in how the flower stands out against the beautiful sky!
Great scene, very pretty photo.
Beautiful Sky, a wonderful intense blue.
nice to see that little wispy cloud
Nice picture. 🙂
Nice and peaceful. I can feel it inside me now. 🙂
Have a beautiful weekend.
Glad to see photos from your walks again. Means your back is better.
This is a wonderful name for a plant.
Our Lord’s Candle? Interesting name for a yucca! We can grow yucas here in Canada too…but I suspect a different variety. hey truly are magestic when they’re in bloom.
I have never heard that before, i love it tho, beautiful capture
Nice
This is beautiful..i did not know this flower…thanks for sharing.
That`s a really beautiful photo.I love it!
i love it! very inspiring and nice composition.