indigo pears

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!