Click on the image to see it bigger.AGAVE

What a way to go! At the end of its life, the agave makes a spectacular expression of power and beauty by sending up a great stalk topped by a marvelous collection of blossoms. I don't know if the stalk is considered one blossom or many. Even before the stalk withers, the plant that produces it begins to die. There is a kind of victory in the process. All around the dying cluster of spiky leaves are new plants. They remind me of pups staying close to their mother.