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Today is a 2fer: Friday Flora selected for the most recent Sunshine Challenge prompt:
I've been recounting my own vin(e)land saga over several recent Friday Floras, and am happy to report that both the loofah and the fuzzy melon got their act together this week and figured out how to climb the balcony railing. Better yet, the fuzzy melon rewarded me this morning with multiple velvety yellow blooms:
I had to take this picture leaning precariously over the balcony with my phone gripped loosely in one hand, so it really doesn't do the flower justice.
Here's a picture of some of the buds, which give a better sense of just how beautiful their coloration is. If this isn't the "yellow in the spring air" from the prompt, I don't know what is.
As an omake, here's a pic of the various herbals I had to hand on the nearest bookshelf while writing this post.
When I was eight years old, I found a second edition copy of Joseph Meyer's The Herbalist on my parents' bookshelf and promptly headed off into the woods to gather and brew up herbal concoctions, with nothing more to go on than the book's--often text-only--descriptions of the plants in question. (It is a wonder I did not poison myself.) But thus began a lifelong fascination with herbs and gardening.
Incidentally, one of the first two plants I successfully identified was the--appropriately yellow--cinquefoil:
これで以上です。
I've been recounting my own vin(e)land saga over several recent Friday Floras, and am happy to report that both the loofah and the fuzzy melon got their act together this week and figured out how to climb the balcony railing. Better yet, the fuzzy melon rewarded me this morning with multiple velvety yellow blooms:
I had to take this picture leaning precariously over the balcony with my phone gripped loosely in one hand, so it really doesn't do the flower justice.
Here's a picture of some of the buds, which give a better sense of just how beautiful their coloration is. If this isn't the "yellow in the spring air" from the prompt, I don't know what is.
As an omake, here's a pic of the various herbals I had to hand on the nearest bookshelf while writing this post.
When I was eight years old, I found a second edition copy of Joseph Meyer's The Herbalist on my parents' bookshelf and promptly headed off into the woods to gather and brew up herbal concoctions, with nothing more to go on than the book's--often text-only--descriptions of the plants in question. (It is a wonder I did not poison myself.) But thus began a lifelong fascination with herbs and gardening.
Incidentally, one of the first two plants I successfully identified was the--appropriately yellow--cinquefoil:
これで以上です。
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