Photo 1957

Farewell, Aunt Carol

Today we attended the funeral of Clare's Aunt Carol, widow of Clare's dad's youngest brother. Uncle Joe & Aunt Carol always had a beautiful back yard and garden, so after the funeral lunch, we stopped for one last visit. In recent years the garden has been managed & tended by Clare's mom's Michigan neighbor, master gardener and friend to all of us in the family, Edie, some of whose flowers — and a caterpillar — have been my 365 posts over the years: http://365project.org/tags/edies-garden

This particular plant is a variety of Pulmonaria or Lungwort. From Edie: its spotted leaves were thought to resemble human lungs [hence both the genus and common name]. This early spring flowering perennial, has its flower starting out pink and ages to blue. Edie states that this variety is 'Diana Clare.'

This image, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/paraman1/r/Boraginaceae_Pulmonaria_sp_110887.html

Genus page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Pulmonaria&rank=genus

1 year ago (“Old Man's Beard”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-05-05
2 years ago (“An 8-frame day…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-05-05
3 years ago (“And *still* it rains!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-05-05
4 years ago (“No moth was harmed in making this photograph”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-05-05
5 years ago (“Landscape design studio”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-05-05

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