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.
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.
posted by Alison at 6:04 PM
5 Comments:
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.
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
we called those "ghost plants" Indian pipes when I was a kid growing up in New England.
Hi there Patty -- Yeah, that's what we call them here in Vermont. Those midwestern girls are weird!
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.
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