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@ 2008-03-12 10:30:00
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We Interrupt Your Steady Intake of Pain And Strife For This Special Bulletin !


"Red" European violets, or viola odorata:

2-2008 055

I'm sorry they weren't next to the "regular" deep purple violets so the contrast in hue would be more obvious. And I'm not much of a photographer, but you get the idea.

Corydalis, sometimes called Larkspur. The exact name of this variety has slipped my mind:

2-2008 056

[ETA 5/1/08 to add: It's actually known as corydalis solida "Beth Evans"]


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[info]hereville
2008-03-12 06:10 pm UTC (link)
Ohh, purple. I like purple (even the reddish varieties of it).

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-13 07:01 pm UTC (link)
So it the next book going to be all in shades of purple ?

Ask me about the funniest thing I heard secondhand recently about "comics" + "purple."

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[info]hereville
2008-03-13 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Okay. What's the funniest thing you heard secondhand recently about "comics" and "purple"?

(The next "Hereville" will probably be in black and white, actually. I like how the B&W looks, and I'm interested in ways I can produce pages faster.)

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-13 07:13 pm UTC (link)
mr_xeno, for reasons known strictly to himself, was reading pages and pages on Wikipedia about the alternate/future histories of Marvel Comics characters. I looked over his shoulder at one point. I swear to you on a stack of compost, there was a passage in there that said something like,

"The Purple Man [a villain with powers of hypnosis or something like that] brainwashed somebody-or-other to go attack Daredevil but said somebody-or-other mistook The Scarlet Witch for Daredevil and attacked her instead."

Given how ever-more hypersexualized female characters in superhero land become every time I think to look at them, this line just struck me as about the funniest thing I've read since who-knows-when. You'd have to be a pretty lousy hypnotist for that outcome to occur, no ?

Of course, I should have checked to make sure that either Daredevil or The Scarlet Witch in whatever-alternate-universe-it-was hadn't undergone sex changes or whatever. But still...

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[info]hereville
2008-03-13 08:13 pm UTC (link)
That is pretty funny. :-)

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[info]alephnul
2008-03-13 02:25 am UTC (link)
Wow, your larkspur is way ahead of ours. Sadly, almost all of our violets are white, which is my least favorite violet color.

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-13 07:03 pm UTC (link)
I'm actually behind most of the neighbors. Their stuff always blooms before ours, possibly due to the combo of cold + soil that desperately needs something to eat.

As for the monochrome violet problem, these folks can help you out. I totally recommend 'em, unless you have both the patience and the space to cultivate your own violets from seed.

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