All around Anchorage, the lamp posts were covered with these flower baskets, in the colors of the Alaskan state flag.

I found my first Violettos at a hardware store. For two years they had an amazing seed rack with different varieties of veggies not usually grown around here and some from Italy. Then they stopped. That's when I ordered a catalog online and from then on purchased from there. You know that they turned bright green when cooked right? Aren't Rattlesnake beans also mottled purple? I'm curious now. I wonder if all this time I thought I had planted yellow wax beans that crossed with the purple, when I bought Rattlesnakes beans instead.

More steps (from yesterday). These are near Barcelona.

casey, a variety of chrysanthemum would be my guess. I've seen chrysanthemums before that had petals like that. But, there are people on here far more knowledgeable than me who will probably chime in with the correct answer!