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Flax in bloom,  in bloom, in bloom and on and on….a song to Flax

 

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Mercy came to listen

 

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keep trying to find a time of day that the light will allow a true image of the color.  This is close.

 

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i found my Grandmother in the dictionary.  A while ago,  i was wondering where she was and well…right there,  in the dictionary.  Have a habit of putting photographs and other things in books.   Find it interesting that they Show UP out of the blue.  I never know.

Maternal Grandmother.  She died before i was born.  Katerine Frances Ludvinka.  Born in a town in Moravia,  that i can say but have no idea how to spell.  Phonetically it might be  Yero mer schizta.   but i know the beginning,  the Yero part is Jz…the Y.    Moravia.  Czech Republic.  Part of the family income came from eggs.   Story goes that her chooks would line up on the porch railing in the evening and she would carry them,  one by one into the hen house for the night.   My mother and her older sister were responsible for dispatching them when the time came.  My mother held on the block.  Aunt Frances whacked.  

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17 responses to “Give Water day. sit and watch the slow drip”

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    moravia you spell it well , so your grandmother was a Eurpean woman ,i like to know that .

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Flax, blooms and stalks, so delicate yet strong in the wind. When we lived in Texas, we planted a whole swath of flax against a wall near the front of our house and when the winds came, it was like watching a tapestry of blue dance against the white limestone.
    Grandmother Katerine looks to be a most capable woman. I’m curious where in the dictionary did you find her photo – under what letter?

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  3. saskia Avatar

    my husband mentioned flax the other day, was confused ’bout what it was exactly and we forgot to google and look….and now it comes up in your post and I call him and he comes and looks at the screen, oh wow, this is good, connected!

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  4. saskia Avatar

    ….and also, ‘whacked’ there is such determination and strength is this word (and of course their combined efforts)

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    that beautiful blue of flax flowers, have never seen them in real life!

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  6. Wendy @ the Late Start Studio Avatar

    Your flax is so different from ours, our harakeke, but I guess that’s as it should be in our world of opposites. If you check out NZ flax images you’ll see what I mean . . . I can feel my hands wanting to weave some.
    The kantha, so beautiful and effective Grace and the colours so subtle . . . did you stitch a single layer of cloth or two?

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  7. handstories Avatar

    just the word “flax” is songlike. love the chicken story…carrying, holding & whacking.

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  8. sue Avatar

    the flax is very pretty.. love all the colours in that first photograph.. the stone..earth..flower..and all those shades of green from the plants.. gorgeous. lovely grandmother story too.. ‘aunt frances whacked’… funny.. although not for the chickens

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  9. grace Avatar

    yes. and somehow i feel very much OF her. She graduated
    Nursing School there and was a midwife. She also kept the records for her area…birth/death/property.
    you remember, i once said, she named my mother Vlasta
    that means mother country

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  10. grace Avatar

    i wish i’d noticed. I thought of that later. Don’t know.
    She had a very hard life.

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  11. grace Avatar

    this plant here, i can’t imagine it as Flax that makes fiber
    i don’t know….it’s what they called it when they gave it to me
    last year

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  12. grace Avatar

    yeah. Whacked.

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  13. grace Avatar

    need to research more

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  14. grace Avatar

    there are 3 layers it’s what gives it Life

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  15. grace Avatar

    childhood stories

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  16. grace Avatar

    it’s all Something, isn’t it…?….
    how it all arises into the same image somehow

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  17. Mo Crow Avatar

    ah I see it’s not the same plant that Belgian linen comes from Linum usitatissimum, yours is Linum lewesii a native American wildflower
    http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=LILE3

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