I like the design a lot, especially the colors. However, the first few lines of what I've cut and pasted below in fact are a little hard to read over the leaves.
The laurel or bay tree is native to Asia Minor, from where it spread to the Mediterranean and then to other countries with like climates.
Laurel was famed in ancient Greece and Rome. According to stories, the Delphi
I think it should be "Delphic."
oracle chewed bay leaves, or sniffed the smoke of burning leaves to promote her visionary trances. The Greek word for laurel is dhafni, from the myth of the nymph Daphne, who was transformed (or transformed herself) into a laurel tree to escape Apollo’s attempted rape. Apollo made the tree sacred and thus it became a symbol of honour. Emperors, heroes and poets were crowned with laurel leaves.
"honour" is the British spelling; not sure if you want that.
The association with honour and glory continue today; we have poet laureates (Apollo was the God of poets), and bacca-laureate means “laurel berries”
I'd put a comma after "berries."
signifying the completion of a bachelor degree. Doctors were also crowned with
I may be behind the times, but I think it's usually "bachelor's degree."
laurel, which was considered a cure-all. Triumphant athletes of ancient Greece were awarded laurel garlands and it has been given to winners at Olympic games since 776 BC.
For all of these reasons but especially because of the transforming power of art and scholarship, in 2006, we renamed our Journal Laurel Leaves.
There are also some issues of comma usage that are more stylistic than really violations of the rules, so I just mention them so you can see what you think. I'd put a comma between "laurel" and "and it has been given..." And I'd do that last sentence more like this:
For all of these reasons, but especially because of the transforming power of art and scholarship, in 2006 we renamed our journal Laurel Leaves.
I'd also either put quotations around the name of the journal, or italicize it, or do whatever you guys usually do when you write about it.
Thank you very much. I've made the corrections to the page, and switched the color of the text. I am too fond of that new green of Spring. I did like the Swedish Ivy picture. It reminds me of the garden.
Even though we're due for more snow tonight, the daylilies are up a little over four inches, the damage from the last ice storm may not have been as bad as it intially seemed and I notice the types of birds visiting the yard have changed. They are also out and about more vocally than a few weeks ago. It's silly of me but I always think they are calling the Spring in.
Swedish Ivy is also the maddest spreader. I don't pull it up. It has very pretty scalloped leaves and tiny flowers, which are worth looking at close-up, and it smells wonderfully of mint.
The laurel or bay tree is native to Asia Minor, from where it spread to the Mediterranean and then to other countries with like climates.
Laurel was famed in ancient Greece and Rome. According to stories, the Delphi
I think it should be "Delphic."
oracle chewed bay leaves, or sniffed the smoke of burning leaves to promote her visionary trances. The Greek word for laurel is dhafni, from the myth of the nymph Daphne, who was transformed (or transformed herself) into a laurel tree to escape Apollo’s attempted rape. Apollo made the tree sacred and thus it became a symbol of honour. Emperors, heroes and poets were crowned with laurel leaves.
"honour" is the British spelling; not sure if you want that.
The association with honour and glory continue today; we have poet laureates (Apollo was the God of poets), and bacca-laureate means “laurel berries”
I'd put a comma after "berries."
signifying the completion of a bachelor degree. Doctors were also crowned with
I may be behind the times, but I think it's usually "bachelor's degree."
laurel, which was considered a cure-all. Triumphant athletes of ancient Greece were awarded laurel garlands and it has been given to winners at Olympic games since 776 BC.
For all of these reasons but especially because of the transforming power of art and scholarship, in 2006, we renamed our Journal Laurel Leaves.
There are also some issues of comma usage that are more stylistic than really violations of the rules, so I just mention them so you can see what you think. I'd put a comma between "laurel" and "and it has been given..." And I'd do that last sentence more like this:
For all of these reasons, but especially because of the transforming power of art and scholarship, in 2006 we renamed our journal Laurel Leaves.
I'd also either put quotations around the name of the journal, or italicize it, or do whatever you guys usually do when you write about it.
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Even though we're due for more snow tonight, the daylilies are up a little over four inches, the damage from the last ice storm may not have been as bad as it intially seemed and I notice the types of birds visiting the yard have changed. They are also out and about more vocally than a few weeks ago. It's silly of me but I always think they are calling the Spring in.
Swedish Ivy is also the maddest spreader. I don't pull it up. It has very pretty scalloped leaves and tiny flowers, which are worth looking at close-up, and it smells wonderfully of mint.
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