Just for fun, while I busy myself writing a couple of overdue stories.
- Photographer Ken Scott’s playful Planet: DH Day (originally printed on the Leelanau Enterprise Back Page 5-28-09). “Toto, we’re not in Leelanau County anymore . . . “
- Mrs. Uhdd’s extraordinary post on damselflies. Really, these photos are something special.
- And then this . . . My yard is full of money plant, a/k/a lunaria. My life is full of irony.
Lunaria is called money plant because the seed pods look like coins. Here are some I was being arty with back in February. Maybe it’s not such a good idea to drown your money plant “coins.”
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p.j. grath
June 2, 2009
Oh, the chilling reminder in those two words, “overdue stories”! I’ve noticed that two bloggers I’ve enjoyed for a long time, having turned to Twittering, rarely write the long, beautiful posts I used to count on them for. We will hold the literacy line?
Gerry
June 2, 2009
We will. Indeed, I am contemplating adding a short story link to the mix. I found an old one that made me laugh and I was disappointed when I got to the place where I hadn’t finished it. Well. That’s on my agenda for this week.
centria
June 2, 2009
LOVE the drowned coins picture! Maybe the phrase “awash in money” might console you? 🙂
Gerry
June 2, 2009
What an excellent suggestion! Irony piles on irony!
dmarks
June 2, 2009
Great set of photos!
Gerry
June 2, 2009
Thank you.
uphilldowndale
June 2, 2009
Thank you for your kind words, my ‘honesty’ as we call lunaria in these ‘ere parts has failed me this year, but I have lots of seeds ready to plant for a bumper crop next year……. I love that photo, I thought the name came from lunar, because they looked moon like.
http://uphilldowndale.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/potential/
Gerry
June 2, 2009
Thank you, ma’am. I stole the idea of underwater plant life from you. I expect “lunaria” does come from the moonlike appearance. “Money plant” comes from the “coins.” One of the most interesting pieces of ephemeral sculpture I ever saw was a whole landscape of gilded lunaria/money plant seedpods dangling from invisible fishline inside a woven reed box with a peephole in front. It was so pretty . . . and very odd, too. (Um, that’s a good thing.)