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| From the "Monthly Mini Series" by Cynthia Wilkerson |
My inspiration for the Monthly Mini - Florals Calender for July this year was one of my favorite sets of pictures. My mom's garden included the beautiful blues of ZigZaz Spiderwort, which need something to attach themselves to in order to keep jointing upward. Blooms are produced at each joint, where only two or three florets are open at one time.
An abundance of other little blooms await their time to open, but hang down on short stems, giving them the appearance of a spider with legs. The plant stems had attatched themselves to the rusty old fence, my dad errected to keep me from fleeing into the street where my mother couldn't get to me so many years ago when I was a toddler. When I took the pictures, I knew mother was ill, and her time on earth was waning, but I didn't expect to know when the fence was gone. It happened just before Mother passed, and I am so glad she didn't see it. So the beautiful blooms on the rusty old fence hold a very special place in my heart now. In their place the city has put a very city like piece of concrete, a sidewalk and a very shiny silver chainlink fence. Somehow, if any of the spiderwort remains, I don't think it looks as good as it did on the rusty old wire... :(
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