December Daily: flowers

[resonant]

lunabee34 -- thoughts about flowers.

Interesting question! Kind of random answer::

- My grandmother's favorite flower was the bearded iris. I find them unpleasantly frilly and fragile, like fainting Victorian ladies. Siberian irises are nicer

- I like tulips. Nice tailored flower, unassuming and cheerful.

- My mother is very proud of having a flower in her garden that blooms in February. (This is in North Carolina, not Iowa, but still.) It's called a Lenten rose, and it doesn't look like much to me, but a flower in February is nothing to sneeze at.

- The day I met my best friend, back in 1991, I was wearing a T-shirt dress with a floral pattern. She complimented it. I told her where I'd bought it. "Oh, I don't want it for me," she said. "I like flowers, but not on me."

- Once I read a book about wildflowers, and the introduction mentioned that there's a type of flower that some wildflower experts refer to as a DYC, which stands for Damned Yellow Composite. I can hear the rumblings of distant controversies, arguments, and powerful feelings that I know nothing about. This is what people outside the fanfic community feel when they hear us say "Mary Sue."


Comment to leave me a prompt! Steal lunabee's prompt if you want to do the meme yourself!

5 -- runpunkrun -- strong feelings about books.
6 -- castiron -- something that you're pleasantly surprised to have in your life.
7 -- mekare -- favorite fandom traditions.
8 -- armadillo1976 -- What is your comfort reading? Fic, high-brow literature, commercial fiction, whatever.
9 -- exceptinsects -- favorite romantic moments...in books, movies, fic, real life?
10 -- pauraque -- your favorite movies as a kid (or favorite kids' movies as an adult)
11 -- mific -- a winter's tale. Anything wintry, good or bad.
12 -- runpunkrun -- advice you've found useful
13 -- terminally_underwhelmed -- things that change, things that don't.
14 -- watersword -- Tell me about a memorable meal.
15 -- anitac588 -- Chris Evans.
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17 -- ride_4ever -- birthdays
18 -- muccamukk -- Dwarvish things in your everyday life. (Moved from the 17th so ride_4ever could get the birthday date.)
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20 -- copracat -- memory.
21 -- rhi -- cats.
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23 -- laurenthemself -- Something spooky that's happened to you
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Comments

[lunabee34]

I love all your varied flower reactions, especially the undercurrents of controversy in the botanical world. LOL

I love flowers but am not willing to cultivate them. LOL I am a passive consumer of the beauty of flowers.

[resonant]

Same here!

[adafrog]

lol DYC

[resonant]

In my line of work we can express much the same feeling with the word "agile."