If you were a plant, what would you be?

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Permalink Reply by Uti on February 11, 2009 at 5:56pm

Here's a tree I drive by on the road to my cabin. It's a magnificent Big Leaf Maple in fall color from last October. It's out in the middle of a pasture so it has been protected from forest fire and fertilized by the cows in exchange for summer shade. It must be the record biggest specimen or close. I've been making a series of snapshots of it during the seasons. This morning it was snowing and raining on it as I drove by, but the bull was out in the pasture with his harem nearby. Not a good time to trespass!

In a couple of weeks the flowering trees will be doing their thing. A wild plum I saw last week was starting to pop, then cold wet weather returned. The indomitable daffodils don't care, they'll bloom in the snow as long as the temps don't drop into the mid 20's.

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Permalink Reply by rawMzMartha! on February 11, 2009 at 7:05pm

Uti~I luv hearing the stories behind these pic's! I luv trees. My re-coup time, from my siezures means that I'm bedridden, and I choose a room where I can watch the trees and being an artist, I see faces and forms that I sketch and inspires my art...~

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Permalink Reply by Uti on February 11, 2009 at 7:55pm

When I was bed bound last March I spent my days watching the peach trees in the orchard outside my window bloom. That connection was a big part of my healing.

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Permalink Reply by rawMzMartha! on February 11, 2009 at 2:57pm

Natasha~juicy energy!

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Permalink Reply by s on February 10, 2009 at 6:36pm

if i were a flower, i would be a pink carnation.
if i were a tree, i would be a banana tree.
if i were a vine, i would be zucchini.
if i were a leafy green, i would be spinach.
if i were a vegetable plant, i would be peas.
if i were a weed, i would be a dandelion.
if i were a bush, i would be a burning bush.
if i were a moss, i would be oedipodiaceae schimper.
if i were a seaweed, i would be dulse.
if i were a house plant, i would be a venus fly trap.

i think that's it for now.
s

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Permalink Reply by Charles on February 10, 2009 at 6:52pm

You put entirely too much thought into this, unless this was already a question on Facebook or something.

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Permalink Reply by rawMzMartha! on February 11, 2009 at 3:11pm

S~keep thinking girl! your on a roll...go with it! ;D

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on February 10, 2009 at 7:17pm

oooh great question!
I'd either be a sunflower coz I love the way they move their heads as the sun makes it's daily journey, or we make our daily journey round the sun - whatever!

Or I'd be a certain type of lily, I don't know what it's called but it's pollen is transported by one type of beetle. This beetle lands in the middle of the lilly on only one day of the year, every year. At this time the lilly puts out a chemical that is totally intoxicating to the beetle, it lands in it and rolls around in ecstasy and then goes on to the next one, carrying the pollen and then rolling around in that one, pollenating it and so on until it probably staggers off to have a bit of a rest! Maybe I;d rather be the beetle than the lilly!!

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Permalink Reply by rawMzMartha! on February 11, 2009 at 3:18pm

Hey Zoe!~what a way to spend the day! lol...totally mind blowing info coming in on this disussion....thank you all so much! (hugz!!!!!!)
I'm smilin' ~
; ))))))))

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Permalink Reply by rawMzMartha! on February 12, 2009 at 2:17pm

rEyYzl~olives have been an important commodity (sp?) for ages!...
yum!

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Permalink Reply by Noah on February 12, 2009 at 3:04pm

Cottonwood tree for sure.

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Permalink Reply by rawMzMartha! on February 12, 2009 at 5:59pm

Noah~do they have thorns????? If so, don't get pricked! ~

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