6.22.2009

Violets.Wear.Us

Color'in books AND crayO.La looks
with a smile wondering while she
might be craZy or knot.ting a note
hear it ring from a ;ping! and a ling
a long song sing.ing over and over.
Again.

What's the color of my pen?

mmmm...
violettes de Toulouse.

Sugar. ;)

The flowers, leaves and roots of various Viola species are used for medicinal purposes, being rich in vitamins A and C. They also contain a type of antioxidant called an anthocyanin. Viola flowers are also used to make an herbal tea that is used in Chinese herbal medicine... Wiki


purrr pple... be sweet and be well.


HeartsEase
The flowers have also been used to make yellow, green and blue-green dyes, while the leaves can be used to make a chemical indicator.

Long before cultivated pansies were released into the trade in 1839, Heartsease was associated with thought in the "language of flowers", often by its alternative name of pansy (from the French "pensée" - thought): hence Ophelia's often quoted line in Shakespeare's Hamlet, "There's pansies, that's for thoughts". What Shakespeare had in mind was Heartsease, not a modern garden pansy.
still wiki


~PenSee for your thoughts....

1 comment:

Sunflower Ranch said...

Izzy, I love your cheery poem!! And the colors and the Wiki link, too. You always make me smile. I love violas and pansies and you've captured them well! Have a cheery day! You've made mine! :D