If you look on the right side of the photo where the side of the standards are located you see what appears to be a face figure lit up just above the falls. Who is this apparition?

looks like George Washington

just kidding...

I DO see the face though, kinda strange

I first thought of George too, but after spending more time starring at the shape I'm not sure. I hope I sleep well tonight......

Looks like Skelator

Well, at least now I know why Keith no longer sells this cultivar; it's haunted (Keppel removed it from his sale list this year)!! Perhaps there's a correlation to Barry closing down his commercial operations?

But in all seriousness folks, this is a gorgeous cultivar and I hope more folks on this site acquire it in the near future. I will do my best to share when it's big enough (first year)

Skelator! Yikes

Yikes I see 2 face shapes. Upper right looks like big hair /head dress falling in her eyes, nose, lips and 2 white teeth. One below looks like part of head skelton. I'm warped sometimes.

2 white teeth

I'm TOTALLY not seeing THAT

I actually see 4 faces in the top bloom and a froggie/elf in the bottom right of the lower bloom.

Top, a Bushman, then Skeletor, in the ruffle below Skeletor a white clad figure ducking for cover, and directly above the blue coloration, Grover Cleveland (sort of)

well then............ you sure the Cheshire cat is not in there ?

Nope, no Cheshire cat, but at a glance the un-enlarged whole flower looks kinda like a blue beaked angry bird...

Dang, all I'm seeing is a beautiful Iris that I wish I could grow but I guess I live too far south because Irises won't grow here and I really want to grow those beauties but I don't want to move north where it gets cold in the winter And I want to see the face that's lit up and the froggie/elf and whatever a Skelator is ...

I guess I'll just go back and enlarge the photo and drool some more at that gorgeous bloom and wish that Irises would grow in Florida!

Skelator was an old cartoon back in the 80's (?)

Does anyone see the perfect chin, lips & teeth, above the one Richard see's? Follow the edge of iris above Richards & there it is. The lips are a darker shade around the teeth. I liked to find the hidden figures in the old Currier and Ives prints as a kid.

Frillylily said:Skelator was an old cartoon back in the 80's (?)

That explains it then ... I'm old!

Ahhhhh, but if you talk to my (now adult) sons, Skeletor was so much more...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QCZU7Y/

went on you tube (?) one day and watch part of an episode, could not believe how cheesy and dumb it was! And I used to watch that!