Bluebells!
In a leafy glade by Abbo's Alley creek, kernels of pastel pink, rose, blue, lavender, purple cluster, puffing, ballooning, opening, lengthening into spring.
A web search turns up tantalizing descriptions. Scotswildflowers says the Welsh call the bluebell Croeso-hof meaning "welcome summer." Paghat's Garden says they are called crawtraes, meaning crow's feet or cow's toes. The Northern Echo, a newspaper, reminds the reader that "Keats referred to them as shaded hyacinth, always sapphire queen of mid-May" and that "Tennyson said they were like the blue sky breaking up through the earth."
Sky in the grass, sapphire toes, hyacinths -- bluebells ring in a beautiful Sunday.
A web search turns up tantalizing descriptions. Scotswildflowers says the Welsh call the bluebell Croeso-hof meaning "welcome summer." Paghat's Garden says they are called crawtraes, meaning crow's feet or cow's toes. The Northern Echo, a newspaper, reminds the reader that "Keats referred to them as shaded hyacinth, always sapphire queen of mid-May" and that "Tennyson said they were like the blue sky breaking up through the earth."
Sky in the grass, sapphire toes, hyacinths -- bluebells ring in a beautiful Sunday.
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