tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post8464766504170644990..comments2024-03-28T08:18:57.280-05:00Comments on stuff from ellen's head: short stories 5ellen abbotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-38196528970735197962010-10-11T09:09:34.632-05:002010-10-11T09:09:34.632-05:00We always called those flowers spider lilies.We always called those flowers spider lilies.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03237277190477149051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-19361245667191080142010-10-04T16:35:24.829-05:002010-10-04T16:35:24.829-05:00answering you- re: my header- it is a vertical sto...answering you- re: my header- it is a vertical stone sculpture in an outdoor gallery here, turned horizontal and cropped a bit.<br />Thanks for liking it!Linda Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070050388987072100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-84774184908280711772010-10-04T12:15:31.499-05:002010-10-04T12:15:31.499-05:00I swear I saw some of those fungi in our yard some...I swear I saw some of those fungi in our yard somewhere - I was going to take a picture, but then I couldn't remember where they were & after looking everywhere I decided that I had dreamed them LOL.<br /><br />Gorgeous flower!<br /><br />Cotton is so deceptively fluffy to have such a bloody past. I think this is one case where I'm glad they have machines to harvest it.The Bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509037206264761261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-69268337910608182822010-10-03T18:46:07.892-05:002010-10-03T18:46:07.892-05:00The defoliated cotton plants make me sad.
I had n...The defoliated cotton plants make me sad.<br /><br />I had never heard of surprise lilies. How extraordinary!<br /><br />Ick, I don't like fungi or toadstools or any of that. *shiver*Fireblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-27331400170385757292010-10-03T14:43:27.064-05:002010-10-03T14:43:27.064-05:00The egg shells look great. The fungi less so. Make...The egg shells look great. The fungi less so. Make me feel all itchy. Lovely photos. Hope all well.Madame DeFargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172239340844485940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-73200689347587301422010-10-03T12:09:23.074-05:002010-10-03T12:09:23.074-05:00Wow, it's amazing to see the difference in the...Wow, it's amazing to see the difference in the cotton fields, pre and post defoliant. Kind of scary to think of the chemicals accomplishing all that, and running into the earth.Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972054718663959694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-81600245579228622172010-10-03T11:57:45.578-05:002010-10-03T11:57:45.578-05:00Oh my goodness, those eggshells are like dinnerwar...Oh my goodness, those eggshells are like dinnerware for the faery folk! They're very cool. <br /><br />One of the things I love about the internet, and blogs is how often I end up saying, "I've never seen that before!" Those lilies? Oh they're gorgeous! So vibrant. They almost look as if they have an actual personality, that's how vivid they are and I'd never seen them before. <br /><br />What's really fun is each time I say that, it's one less thing about which I can say that. Thank you so much for taking away yet another "never" and replacing it with an "Awww!" <br /><br />By the way, cotton picking: Have you ever seen the movie <i>Places in the Heart</i>? I don't really like it all that much, it's the move Sally Field won an Oscar for and then mortified herself for all eternity by saying, "You like me! You really like me!" while accepting the award. <br /><br />However, all that aside there are some very good, interesting parts in that movie and it has the MOST exhausting cotton-picking scene ever committed to film. Even watching the process was draining, I can't begin to imagine the back-breaking reality of having to do that. Slavery is something far enough in the past that we can almost forget what an outrage against humanity it was, what a deplorable thing in our history. But boy, cotton fields make you stop and consider just that, don't they?Land of shimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671954452597068904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-41409956644363253832010-10-03T11:29:11.069-05:002010-10-03T11:29:11.069-05:00Your talent and artistic eye....and hands are a ph...Your talent and artistic eye....and hands are a phenom. Wow, wow and wow. I am always blown away by what you see and do. The Olde BaggOmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589622524456973822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-36742775871725232582010-10-03T10:34:31.090-05:002010-10-03T10:34:31.090-05:00Ellen, what a feast! The space lilies, the shrooms...Ellen, what a feast! The space lilies, the shrooms or whatever alien things they are, all black and melty...the teeny tiny egg shell casts- you must have fairy fingers! Beautiful post.Linda Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070050388987072100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-83503961329887169312010-10-03T10:29:41.082-05:002010-10-03T10:29:41.082-05:00Slavery was a horrible, inhumane thing. My great u...Slavery was a horrible, inhumane thing. My great uncles were share croppers and their living conditions were wretched.I remember going to these places as a child. My grandmother was considered rich because she and her husband actually owned the land they farmed. It is all about perception. Slavery still exists today.<br /><br />On a lighter note, I love the lily and those egg shells are downright magical!Kathy's Klotheslinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17881966393157941515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-24751905481575493362010-10-03T07:16:17.221-05:002010-10-03T07:16:17.221-05:00Wow. The egg shells are beautiful - thank you putt...Wow. The egg shells are beautiful - thank you putting a coin in the pic so I could tell how tiny they are. <br /><br />The cotton pics are haunting and beautiful. I have a friend who picked cotton one summer when she had nothing else to do. It was grueling work, she told me, just awful.<br /><br />The growths - weird! And the surprise lillies are like something from outer space. <br /><br />I love your relationship with the earth.Reya Mellickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13076092659507965666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-75386256906699374232010-10-03T07:02:31.744-05:002010-10-03T07:02:31.744-05:00A post packed with beauty! Cotton and surprise li...A post packed with beauty! Cotton and surprise lilies and fungi and eggshells...all beautiful in their own way.<br /><br />We picked cotton in our youth but we got paid. You dragged a long sack behind you down the rows and picked the boles. Your fingers bled and your back hurt and it took forever to fill a sack...not a career I wanted to pursue.Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04219479223227928561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-76841684409141036762010-10-03T03:40:09.040-05:002010-10-03T03:40:09.040-05:00I'll be honest Ellen - I have never seen cotto...I'll be honest Ellen - I have never seen cotton fields and now I am thinking slavery from a different perspective.<br />Your lillies and mushrooms are amazing.<br />Love your eggs shells.<br />Thank you for your comments on my posts - its good to get feedback from an entirely different stand point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447321916012029979.post-127930137489364922010-10-03T03:05:32.024-05:002010-10-03T03:05:32.024-05:00OMG! Those egg shells are so tiny!! Had no idea....OMG! Those egg shells are so tiny!! Had no idea...very cool!! <br />The mushrooms are very exotic looking. Gooey, huh? Ha!!<br />Love the lily...amazing bloom!<br />And to see the cotton fields brings back all the stories I have heard of the harvest. How their hands would be cut and bloody. Yikes!!<br />Wonderful post!<br />Hugs<br />SueAnnSueannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299288406218968621noreply@blogger.com