We'll tell you of a blossom and of buds on every tree
Rabbit, rabbit! For May Day, I made a garland and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch photographed me. The inspiration was nineweaving.
The awful razing of our yard last summer produced one unexpected result this spring: we have a ground cover of violets. I picked a sufficient-looking quantity and brought them inside where I discovered that my romantic idea of braiding a garland was woefully inadequate to the tendency of stems to snap. I knotted them at intervals with thread.
Considering that I cannot remember ever making a garland of wild flowers before in my life, I was pleased with the results.
In which I am doing my best to become a green man of the lilac, just budding but already summer-sweet.
The photographer thought I looked like a heroic statue.
Because everyone should be offered a branch of May, even if it's a Bradford pear.
And on the porch was sitting the copy of Vivien Alcock's A Kind of Thief (1991) thatosprey_archer had offered a week ago and Hestia had run across my computer to claim, so she will sit on it and I will read it and we will welcome in the spring.
spatch photographed me. The inspiration was nineweaving.
The awful razing of our yard last summer produced one unexpected result this spring: we have a ground cover of violets. I picked a sufficient-looking quantity and brought them inside where I discovered that my romantic idea of braiding a garland was woefully inadequate to the tendency of stems to snap. I knotted them at intervals with thread.
Considering that I cannot remember ever making a garland of wild flowers before in my life, I was pleased with the results.
In which I am doing my best to become a green man of the lilac, just budding but already summer-sweet.
The photographer thought I looked like a heroic statue.
Because everyone should be offered a branch of May, even if it's a Bradford pear.
And on the porch was sitting the copy of Vivien Alcock's A Kind of Thief (1991) that
osprey_archer had offered a week ago and Hestia had run across my computer to claim, so she will sit on it and I will read it and we will welcome in the spring.
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Thank you! It is a cold spring but a brilliant one.
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Nine
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*hugs*
It seemed you could use a flowering May.
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Excellent! <3
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Thank you!
*hugs*
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Thank you!
The violet crown took me about forty-minutes to put together originally and then required fixes after attempting to adjust it on my hair broke it again. As part of the problems I am having with my body, my fingertips have been mostly numb for about a month, so I actually feel smug about having tied a whole bunch of tiny knots. I thought at one point that it would have been much easier if I had tweezers to grip the thread with, but I did not and it still worked.
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Thank you. I hadn't made anything with my hands in a while and it made me happy.
[edit] This was the other picture of the crown itself.
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(Fingertips.)
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And if they are a large enough species of Viola, they're pansies!
Lovely pix!
Thank you!
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Thank you!
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(It was a frost warning and I had to work and then do physio. But tomorrow, cherry blossoms.)
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Thank you!
(It was a frost warning and I had to work and then do physio. But tomorrow, cherry blossoms.)
(Godspeed! I hope the physio helped.)
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When I was a kid in Ohio our backyard was full of violets and I could never get them to braid either. We had some sort of small yellow flower too that I had more success with -- I always called them buttercups but I don't know if they technically were -- and so sometimes I'd stick a violet or two into the braid I was making with those, but even with those, my results never really matched my mental images. Your thread-assisted version works much better!
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Thank you! I decided that I wanted to make it when I saw the violets growing in the yard.
When I was a kid in Ohio our backyard was full of violets and I could never get them to braid either. We had some sort of small yellow flower too that I had more success with -- I always called them buttercups but I don't know if they technically were -- and so sometimes I'd stick a violet or two into the braid I was making with those, but even with those, my results never really matched my mental images.
I love the picture of the violets starred through the buttercups, though.
Your thread-assisted version works much better!
I was happy with it! I found out afterward that one is supposed to use floral wire or tape, but I do not feel bad about my solution.
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Thank you so much!
And that is a very impressive flower crown for using real flowers; most of the ones I've seen done are with silk and florist's wire due to the tensile lacking inherent in stems, but then you end up with other things lacking as a result. I love how vivid the violets are, and the sense of movement in the petals.
I'm so glad! I am currently trying to press and dry it. I became very fond of it in the making.
The pear blossoms are lovely, too.
The lilac and the pear are the two real trees left in our yard. I treasure them.
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Huzzah! The best rating.
*hugs*
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Thank you!
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I often think of it when I see a new baby.
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That's wonderful. My elementary school sang that carol for May Day. (We sang "Nature's hands.")
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That's an incredible compliment. Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Thank you so much! I love that image of it.
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(Also, happy May.)
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How could I resist that offer? Happy May!
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Thank you! Huzzah for your violets.