I’m a Nigella damascena
Well, I finally have succumbed to putting one of these on my blog. I took this “test” when it first popped up on the quiltart list and was a Nigella, then did it again for giggles (changing the few answers that could have gone either way) and turned into a Snapdragon. It says of the Nigella:
“Many people think you are just a little bit odd, but you consider yourself just a little eccentric. You find new experiences exciting and fulfilling.” I can live with that!
I couldn’t recall what I was then, and the subject came up on the Quiltart list again, so I did it again. That time I was either a Daffodil (my favorite flower, but the description wasn’t really “me”) or (erg) an Echinacea (you know, wholesome, good for you…. erg). So I came across the test yet again, and happily I am back to being a Nigella. Or (since I used to garden) a Nigella damascena (as in Damascus, Syria) also known as Love-in-a-Mist. They make lovely dried flowers, too, and are the most glorious sky blue and self-seed with abandon in the right soil and conditions.
Does that I mean I will be lovely when I’m a dried up old prune?
OK, promise good quilty stuff tomorrow or the next day. Today is clean the house day and tomorrow is The Frayed Edges at my house. I’m fixing one of my favorite summer salads: curried chicken with mango and cashews. Got the recipe from Dianna Rooney while I was at the US Embassy in Libreville, Gabon; she loved to cook and had been collecting recipes for tropical foods before coming to Gabon (which is almost on the equator, on the west coast of Africa). More anon…..
October 8th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I’ve got more good salads for you! Where are you by the way? Googled my name and your site came up! Great quilts but aren’t you in Washington?