Warning....
Another "moon thing".......... this is "Jimson Weed" (looking beautifulhere in the painting by Georgia O'Keefe)...this plant is the same family as night blooming, "Moonflower".
Beautiful and deadly. We lost a teenage boy, part of our extended family, this week.
[We don't know why (17 year-old kids will do wild things) or how many seeds he consumed, but he suffered a long time in intensive care and did not make it!]
I'm only posting this so that you can warn your children if you feel it is appropriate.
Jimson weed is not uncommon. We even have a variety of it in our town square gardens, it is a lovely white to purple trumpet shaped flower.
I think the Carl Sandburg poem posted with the harvest moon photo (below) is a good one for this year!
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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Beautiful painting....but obviously a deadly plant. I'm so sorry to hear about the young man who died. Teenagers will do such strange things and always imagine themselves indestructable. My heart goes out to you and the rest of his family.
I am so sorry to read of Your Loss.
I did not know about Jimson Weed either.
The Sandburg Poem was a nice choice , you are right. How were You To Know just a few days before....?
...A Thousand Memories...Beautiful, unanswered Questions....
how sad. We have a plant here called Angel Trumpets, they grow wild in the bush and young kids sometimes boil them up... sadly they don't make it, just like this young boy...
I am sorry to learn the news.
It grows in our deserts, too.
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