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04.30.2008 :: 120. Random flowers from the grocery
Anemones
The name anemone comes from the Greek, loosely translated to WINDFLOWER. It is said in Greek Mythology that the anemone flower sprang up from the blood of Aphrodite's slain lover, Adonis. The name "windflower" signifies that the wind that blows the petal open will also, eventually, blow the dead petals away.
That's all the random I can dredge up for today. Some days are like that.
Posted by Sandy on 04.30.2008 AT 06:35 PM
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I love close-ups of flowers (as you can tell from my post today!) and I love these.
Posted by: Teresa C on 04.30.2008 AT 09:41 PM
I love anenomes, but only realized a few years ago that I'd been mispronouncing them all my life. I'd always called them an-e-mones, rather than a-nem-ony. Once I'd figured that out, it made the little rhyme from Louisa May Alcott's "Jack and Jill" where there all writing poems to put in May Day baskets make so much more sense. Because, the way I THOUGHT it was pronounced, the poem just didn't rhyme!
Anyway, beautiful pictures.
Posted by: --Deb on 04.30.2008 AT 09:10 PM
Beautiful pictures!!
Posted by: margene on 04.30.2008 AT 07:45 PM
That's nicely, randomly pretty, and I live the Greek mythology.
Posted by: Norma on 04.30.2008 AT 06:58 PM
Very pretty, my Sandy.
Posted by: Cookie on 04.30.2008 AT 06:52 PM
Gorgeous, Sandy. Those colors would make a lovely sock!!
Posted by: Nora on 05.01.2008 AT 09:47 AM