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A post that's mostly about flowers
Apr. 22nd, 2006 01:44 pmOur yard is in full bloom now ^___^ The scilla, sadly, is gone now, as are most of the daffodils, but they have been replaced by violets, tulips, Dutchman's Breetches, bloodroot, bleeding heart, bluebells, all sorts of things ^_^ The pear trees are blooming, as is the peach tree, which makes me very happy. (I find the peach blossoms quite charming, to tell the truth. I hope we get lots of peaches in the fall ♥) The apple trees haven't started flowering yet, but they've got many buds. We also have May Apples coming up under the apple trees. They haven't started blooming yet--that won't happen for a while--but a few of them have put out their own buds.
Violets tend to distract me the most. We've got a whole range of colors in the back yard, and I end up going into mental tangents on genetics. We've got yellow wood violets, classic purple violets, white violets with blue throats, plain white violets, baby blue violets and, just this year, what look like red violets. (The color is a bit too purple to be true red, but it's awfully close for something called a 'violet'.) A lot of times this gets me wondering about dominance of traits and how we got some of these colors. The plain white violets for example have a plant structure similar to the yellow wood violets and a buttery yellow hue to their petals, unlike the blue-throated white violets. And some of the blue-throated white violets are blue almost to the edge of the petals, which makes me wonder about incomplete dominance. I don't really know much about violet genetics, though, so I usually abandon these lines of thought before too long. I hope we have as much variety next year as we do this year, though.
Now, in order to keep this post from being entirely about flowers, have some Mah-Jong in Saiyuki geeking. It's great fun to read all the details ^^v Makes me wanna play Mah-Jong again, too... Anyway, next post I think I may fangirl about Ouran High School Host Club. (WTF, Tanaki looks just like a grown-up Momiji, except for the eyes.)
Violets tend to distract me the most. We've got a whole range of colors in the back yard, and I end up going into mental tangents on genetics. We've got yellow wood violets, classic purple violets, white violets with blue throats, plain white violets, baby blue violets and, just this year, what look like red violets. (The color is a bit too purple to be true red, but it's awfully close for something called a 'violet'.) A lot of times this gets me wondering about dominance of traits and how we got some of these colors. The plain white violets for example have a plant structure similar to the yellow wood violets and a buttery yellow hue to their petals, unlike the blue-throated white violets. And some of the blue-throated white violets are blue almost to the edge of the petals, which makes me wonder about incomplete dominance. I don't really know much about violet genetics, though, so I usually abandon these lines of thought before too long. I hope we have as much variety next year as we do this year, though.
Now, in order to keep this post from being entirely about flowers, have some Mah-Jong in Saiyuki geeking. It's great fun to read all the details ^^v Makes me wanna play Mah-Jong again, too... Anyway, next post I think I may fangirl about Ouran High School Host Club. (WTF, Tanaki looks just like a grown-up Momiji, except for the eyes.)
