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That’s the plan, Suzanne!
10 months agoThanks, Susan. Yes, WWI is personal, because I knew and loved someone who fought in it. The history is real. And being there where that history is still so alive means a lot.
10 months agoI knew it! Thanks for the confirmation.
10 months agoCows always stare and stare and stare at me. I've come to appreciate that kind of undivided attention. So, yes, you should be offended.
10 months agoWhat a wonderful post, not only for the personal story of your grandfather but also as a reminder that so many of us are connected to Europe in ways we might never know.
10 months agoSo interesting! Too bad you didn't know while you were here. Yes, you must come back!
10 months agoThanks for the confidence, but most of my IDs are based on internet searches and eyeballing photos for similarities, so they are often highly suspect.
10 months agoLooks like you are correct!
10 months agoYou’re the best, Bill. Thanks.
10 months agoThanks, Bill!
10 months agoI had one person confirm Rough Chervil (Chaerophyllum temulum).
And get this, from Wikipedia: Chaerophyllum temulum has been used in folk medicine, in small doses, to treat arthritis, dropsy, and chronic skin complaints, and as a spring tonic. The early modern physician Boerhaave (1668–1738) once successfully used a decoction of the herb combined with Sarsaparilla to treat a woman suffering from leprosy – **in the course of which treatment temporary blindness was a severe side effect following each dose.**
iNaturalist told me the same.
10 months agoMight be wild carrot
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1043617-Daucinae/browse_photos?place_id=6753
Looks like white campion
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/79109-Silene-latifolia
You ate very talented!
10 months ago