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A Pysanka for my Easter Basket, by Nadia Starovoytova (via Yevshan)
A Ukrainian girl in folk costume admires a pysanka, as she prepares a basket for blessing. The fine details of the flowers framing the work, as well as birds, butterfly, chicks, and a church in the background glorify the joy and traditions of Ukrainian Easter! Over the centuries, and around the world, eggs have been a part of spring and Easter celebrations because of their association with rebirth and renewal. They are the oldest universal symbol associated with celebratory spring rituals. Coloring them is a spring tradition that also dates back to prehistory. In Ukraine, eggs were decorated and given as gifts, as good-luck talismans for the home. The tradition is continued in the art of pysanky.
My Ukrainian Easter print’s finally arrived! (<- A birthday gift from Italics.) Now that I’ve got my Alpha (Easter) and Omega (Harvest) it’s time to mat’n’frame the pair!
wild fruit (by skinnypictures)
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Is this chickweed?
San
Hi San, nope, no Chickweed here in the Canyon…
this beauty is Mountain Candytuft (Noccaea montana I think) also called Pennycress… The flowers are often tinged with violet or pink depending on their location. They mostly grow in Montane areas populated with lots of Ponderosa Pine.
What a beautiful plant, do you use it. We are still covered with 10 inches of snow in Central Minnesota and I have chickweed I eat all winter, just need to dig deep enough to find it.
Blessings
Hi Sue!
Being part of the mustard family, this plant has been used in the past as a digestive aid…. I munch on it now and then, but have a hard time ever harvesting any because they’re so pretty and bloom when nothing else is which makes it hard to remove them from the landscape. Plus, they’re very little, and so it takes a great deal of prettiness to make a small amount of medicine.
Chickweed grows in the mountains some, but it’s not terribly common in this area. I am trying to get it to grow in the garden though. It’s a bit dry for its liking round these parts.
Chickweed loves the shade, I find her all over my gardens hiding under other plants.
Because it is so plentiful here she is one of my best allies.
Thanks for the information on Mt Candytuft she is beautiful.
Many Green Blessing
the flowers remind of bluets, one of our early-ish springtime beauties (tho we’ve still got a way to go before then!) i love the name!