Just Landed

It has been a hot muggy day with 32. If the sun had of stayed out it would have gotten much hotter .. I would say.

I went to the funeral of a cousin this morning. It was a wonderful service and he had a good send off.

The fall-blooming Japanese anemone is not from Japan, but native to central China. Historians claim that 17th century Europeans brought this particular anemone from Japan, where it had been naturalized for hundreds of years.

Japanese anemones are commonly called windflowers after the Greek word for anemone, meaning “daughter of the wind.” Supposedly, the Roman naturalist Pliny first noted that the wind opens the blossoms of the anemone, yet that description fails to address that perennial anemones require shelter from the wind.

Equally confusing is that Roman folklore credits parts of the plant with preventing fever whereas the Chinese associate it with death.
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