Addicted to bluebells!

[caffyolay]

The bluebells are looking particularly pretty this week so I took a walk around the garden and took a few pics. They don't last *all* that long so you have to get them while they're at their best. Anyway, I thought I'd share the photos I took (under the cut of course as I suspect they're huge and might mess up people's friends' pages.)

Comments

[semyaza]

Bluebells remind me of hours spent wandering down the lane picking bluebell bouquets when I was a child. Lovely things. :)

[caffyolay]

I did exactly the same thing as a child. :-)

[talloakslady]

The bluebells are so pretty. I especially like the first two pictures.

[caffyolay]

Thank you. Really pleased you liked the pics.

[grigorisgirl]

And the scent is so amazing too, though they are battling with the wild garlic in our new garden at the moment.

[caffyolay]

The scent is beautiful... a very delicate version of hyacinth which I imagine it is a variety of. Not sure.

[bluespirit_star]

Beautiful!
The woods around us are a riot of blue at the mo.

[caffyolay]

It really a lovely time of year for wild flowers. :-)

[guinnevere_b]

Mmmmmm. Those bluebells are lovely.

So far this year only the anemones are blossoming in my flower bed. (I never forget the first time I read a reference to "Anemone" - it was the name of a girl in an otherwise forgettable "young adult" book I was reading. I was probably about twelve, and I'd never heard the word pronounced, so I thought of her as "ANNA-moan." ...She WAS a little bit of a complainer, as I seem to recall...)

The irises are all putting out healthy-looking green blades, but the few tulips and daffodils don't even seem to have any leaves above ground yet. It really WAS a brutal winter.

[caffyolay]

Well, we all need a good laugh first thing in the morning and you gave me mine with your "ANNA-moan". Been there, done that etc. Actually still doing it. My latest book - a sci-fi - has a character called 'Duun'. I can't seem to read it as anything other than 'Dun'... but what did the author (C.J. Cherryh) mean it to be? A drawn out 'Duuuuuuun', a 'da-un' kind of thing... 'doooon'. Goodness only knows. And every book I read seem to be like that. Not sure if that's comment on what I read or a general one on the intentions of authors to confuse their readers.

You've had such a hard winter over there that I'm shocked you have anything whatsoever showing, to be honest.

[guinnevere_b]

Wouldn't it be great if authors routinely added an appendix to each of their books, listing how to pronounce made-up names and terms - along with definitions? I think Terry Pratchett has posted such a list on his website, as well as answering such questions at fantasy convention question-and-answer sessions.

It usually seems to surprise authors when a name like "Duun" inspires not only differences of pronunciation, but sometimes deeply acrimonious arguments!

(In the hotel elevator at a convention, once, I quoted the Vogon from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Resistance is useless!" Some teenager turned to me with a helpful expression and said, "You mean 'Resistance is futile!' " ...I didn't answer. There was no point in explaining the difference between the Vogon and the Borg; such as it is.)

[caffyolay]

It would indeed be great. Some will say in some clever roundabout way how the name should be said, but most just don't. I know it doesn't matter *that* much but me being me I find it can throw me out of the story quite a bit.

There was no point in explaining the difference between the Vogon and the Borg; such as it is.)

Sadly, no.