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I'm here because it's a place where I want to be.
What do I do with my life - still pondering that, keep exploring the possibilities I suppose...
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Take a look at my daughter Beth's website...
food for thought...
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -John Webster, playwright (c. 1580-1634)
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. -Margaret Millar, novelist (1915-1994)
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
Thanks to A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
from A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
,thistledown
,devil's bit scabious
,parnassia palustris (grass of parnassus)
,?Lamiaceae
,mint family
,balm?
,melittis
I'm not (quite) the flower fairy but I have a book... Could it be wild basil?
I have books and I've image searched purple wild flowers online - I tried a search but didn't have enough details so will have to go back and get more info. It was a single flowernot part of a cluster and stood a foot off the ground so the flower was maybe 1.5cm long.
Trawling through mauve flowers on firstnature.com - I think it's a balm, a member of the mint (Lamiaceae) family. The nearest I have found is bastard balm! The leaves are right and the flower has lots of similarities. Genus melittis.
It seems this pretty flower is a pest (himalayan balm) especially on riverbanks!
Apparently it has explodin seeds.
http://melbreakcommunities.wordpress.com/activities/loweswater-care-project/himalayan-balsam/