The precious ointment spilled as it smeared
To fill in the mouth but skipped past the beard.
Blue eyes found unity to pair there and dwell, 
A nose was formed to breathe and to smell.

 Some may compare her to the parable of "Aaron"
 Who the lamb of God  annointed with sacred oil.
The Goatsbeards sod rooted, began in common soil
 Where  bonnets are empty and the faces are gone.

© Photo digital art poety
By Andrea Jeanne Petersen
Created August 20, 2005

I felt inspired to hand paint an "unknown face" in the center of the photo
 on the top of this page ...I had no pattern to use...just imagination and the computer
mouse to guide my hand...(Please forgive me if she resembles anyone that you know:0))

~Description from Reader's Digest North American Wildlife~

Goatsbeard (Tragopogon)

The plants of this group have several names.  They are called
Goatsbeard for their huge, white plumed seedheads; some are
known as oyster plants for the distinctive flavor of their boiled roots
strongest in the purple--flowered Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius).
Three species of this Old World group have long been established 
in North America, and in recent years it has been found that two new
 species have arisen in the Northwest as a result of hybridization.