Sunday, August 06, 2006

A Visit

My friend Marietta came to visit. She brought us eggplants.









We hiked up a nearby mountain.



Dame's rocket and goldenrod were blooming in the open spaces.








In the woods, we found ghost flowers




and poison berries.

5 Comments:

Blogger calamitysue said...

Ohhh egg plants ,they look fantastic sitting up like that.Did she grow them?And what a hike,its so beautiful-ghost flowers,must find out about ghost flowers.

8:44 PM  
Blogger Alison said...

Yes, she grew them -- ain't they gorgeous? They also looked fantastic on the counter, in a wooden bowl, in a paper bag; they're ineffably lovely. We must devise a special dish to honor them...

Ghost flowers is what Marietta calls them -- I knew them as Indian pipe. they're also called corpse flower, for obvious reasons I suppose. Marietta comes from Wisconsin, which was settled by prim Scandinavians and Germans and is now the home of a relentlessly sunny and wholesome mindset that probably converted "corpse flower" to "ghost flower" so as not to scare the kiddies. Here's a link: http://tinyurl.com/pvvx6

6:22 AM  
Blogger Patty said...

we called those "ghost plants" Indian pipes when I was a kid growing up in New England.

1:56 PM  
Blogger Alison said...

Hi there Patty -- Yeah, that's what we call them here in Vermont. Those midwestern girls are weird!

3:45 PM  
Blogger calamitysue said...

Hi Patty,I enjoyed my short look at your blog.You lived in a Mennonite community,Wow!Did you grow up there?or did you meet your husband and move there?.Sorry to be such a nosey parker,but its rare to be able to ask these things.

7:18 PM  

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