FOTO FRIDAY: WHO KNEW?

 

FOTO FRIDAY: Who knew? Not me. 

Bellísima, ¿no?

When my paella recipe calls for saffron, now I understand why it is so costly.  The vivid crimson 'thread' is the saffron. The flower is appropriately named crocus salivus,  the saffron crocus, whose season to bloom is October here in Italy.