Wildflower: Queen Anne's lace
Daucus Carota (Wilde Moehre), native to Europe, is the wild form of the carrot plant. These plants can be seen all along the edges of fields and roads around Villigen.
For the next few days I'll be featuring wildflower macro shots.
200707 Nikon Coolpix 950
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i love wild flowers and weeds that get un-noticed. Some of mine are here: link and here: link
You got a great shot here! We have Queen Anne's Lace, too, but I've never seen it this pretty.
Like dandelions, this is all over the world now.
Thanks for your kind remarks and visit.
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Brookville Daily Photo
They are many around here on road sides. the one of your picture is very pretty.
it's so delicately beautiful, Z..and i love the angle at which you shot it too..
and yes it reminds me of the rather charming origin of term "tawdry" ..shall share it with you..
In the 7th century, Etheldreda, the queen of Northumbria, decided to renounce her husband and her royal position for the veil of a nun. She died of a throat tumor in 679. She blamed this growth on her love of wearing necklaces in her youth and claimed that it was sent as a punishment. After Ethelreda's death, she became a patron saint and her name was simplified to St Audrey . She was paid tribute to every year on the 17th October when a fair would be held in her name. In honour of Saint Audrey - and her fatal fondness for necklaces - ribbon and lace were sold at this fair to adorn the ladies' necks. These were called 'St Audrey's lace' which by the 17th century had become altered to 'tawdry lace' . Eventually tawdry came to be applied to all the cheap knickknacks, jewelery, and toys sold at the fair.
.....correction, Z. The @last day@ for sowing WW is 16 OCT..not AUG. Between now and then will be some fallow time & then ploughing and sowing.
very nice!
Hello,
The blue car is a Amilcar; from France, in the mid to late 1920's.
Check these photo-references:
http://www.laplanche.info/resources/Amilcar.jpg
and
www.jcc.ch/images/GP_Safenwil/GP21_Amilcar.jpg
I'm sorry to be out of place here, but I'm not sure you would be reviewing old topics. Thanks for your photo-work,
Cheers, Richard (SAN)
Goodness, how delicately beautiful!
@anonymous - isn't the internet wonderful! I wonder if you are a CDP regular or if you happened on this by accident
Thanks to all for the nice comments.
Moi: what an interesting story about tawdry. I'll always remember it!
Hello Richard (SAN): Thank you for the information. I've updated the page (comments made on old posts are, in principle, emailed to me, but there have been one or two cases where Blogger messed up).
I love photos of Queen Anne's Lace! They make a good subject.
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