tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366775845290776474.post3846049815285117255..comments2024-03-27T13:06:10.548-05:00Comments on Mr. Micawber's Recipe for Happiness: Wild ChicoryMrs. Micawberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08680436275934263596noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366775845290776474.post-52489766482351936922011-07-20T22:15:57.650-05:002011-07-20T22:15:57.650-05:00Thanks all! I believe we have flax here, but I don...Thanks all! I believe we have flax here, but I don't see much of it.<br /><br />I think fleeting pleasures are some of the best, too.Mrs. Micawberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08680436275934263596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366775845290776474.post-52476346537358108822011-07-20T15:54:15.507-05:002011-07-20T15:54:15.507-05:00Marvellous. Thank you so much for sharing. I tre...Marvellous. Thank you so much for sharing. I treasure the delicate colour (like its nature)of wild chicory. Its ephemeral beauty... well don't start me on one of my favourite (thesis) topics. Suffice to say I firmly believe short-lived pleasures are some of the best.<br /><br />As for your choice of music, well, I am so happy to find another Baroque music fan...<br /><br />I hope your friend's birthday lunch was as pleasurable as your drive there.millefeuilleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608950213999238191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366775845290776474.post-11533357036965310482011-07-20T13:29:43.015-05:002011-07-20T13:29:43.015-05:00Just this morning, on my drive to work, I was admi...Just this morning, on my drive to work, I was admiring the fields and roadsides covered in this beautiful flower. As a little girl I would bring bunches home in hopes of having a bedside bouquet only to be dissappointed when they seem to shrivel away every time! Didn't know then that they needed the bright sunshine.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04483309306425822696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366775845290776474.post-5846023052978171042011-07-20T12:18:45.266-05:002011-07-20T12:18:45.266-05:00What a gorgeous shade of blue. Our councils also ...What a gorgeous shade of blue. Our councils also mow roadsides at inappropriate times which makes me seethe.<br /><br />We sometimes see Flax growing in large fields here, it also is a pretty colour and I wonder if it is still used to make linen or if it is grown for linseed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366775845290776474.post-37264495801507584702011-07-20T11:56:56.625-05:002011-07-20T11:56:56.625-05:00Yet another great post. You do write well! Our r...Yet another great post. You do write well! Our roadside purple/blue (or I guess it really is violet/blue) is blue flax, and I don't think it has as compelling a story behind it as your chicory. Yet it is beautiful.<br /><br />I especially enjoyed your description of the county road crews. I experience the same sour taste in my mouth when they mow the wild sunflowers along my cycling route!Snowcatcherhttp://www.snowcatcher.netnoreply@blogger.com