I was walking the dog last week after a morning rain and I came across these beautiful purple flowers. I am not sure what they are but they caught my eye.
Now these next ones I am pretty sure are Black-eyed Susans. They belong to the sunflower family and are quite common where I live in the southern USA.
Native Americans in the past have used these yellow and black flowers as medicine to treat snakebites, earaches, intestinal worms, and even venereal disease. 
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