front door and back door

[asakiyume]

The front door...


....and the back door.


By the front door, bloodroot:


Mrs. Grieve says, The rootstock is thick, round and fleshy, slightly curved at ends, and contains an orange-red juice. In other words, when cut, it bleeds.

It was used as a dye and as medicine; it can, like most such plants, also be used as a poison.

Comments

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

Niiice. I love these pictures. Don't know if I ever said that.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks--glad you do.

[duccio.livejournal.com]

Who lives in there?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No one was there when I called, so I'm not sure!

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! So cool!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I believe in Mr. Grieve...

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Whoever lives there... I wonder why they need the bloodroot so handy? And an escape route right there, too. Either good fairies, or very bad ones.

[b-oki.livejournal.com]

fantastic photos.

i'd enjoy seeing this tree in person and also enjoyed learning about the bloodroot.

thank you :))

[mguibord.livejournal.com]

It looks cozy! According to the almanac, from the bloodroot we can deduce that whoever lives there has fleshy excrescences and um, a torpid liver. Watch out!

[lunalila.livejournal.com]

Love it! Thanks for sharing these pics :)

[mmuenzler.livejournal.com]

You should have tried the doorbell. :P

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a mini puffball and I didn't want to release the spores.

(Cue mad landowner shouting, "release the hounds spores!")

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be nice to shrink down that small and go wandering in?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Mrs., but me too!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Maybe, as mguilbord suggests below, it's for their torpid liver. Poor lazy liver :D

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome ^_^

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I've always fancied living inside a tree**--ever since reading My Side of the Mountain.

"Fleshy excrescences"--you have to love the way people wrote. (Actually, I guess medical jargon is still rather this way...)

**Or on a tree. Still excited for more treehouse pictures as your project advances!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My pleasure--thanks for stopping by!

[deponti.livejournal.com]

Lovely...can I send you pics of the common wildflowers here? I need help with the names...

[suzan-s.livejournal.com]

The photo reminds me of the children's book "A House is a House for Me", my kids used to love it!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I loved that story--well, not "story," but book!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Sure! I will help if I can. Some I may not know :-)

[desert-sparrow.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the residents are related to these folks.
http://www.terragalleria.com/black-white/pictures-subjects/trunk/picture.trunk.usca9946.html

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Yes definitely!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And right by a river, too, so they can take a dip whenever they feel like it.

[pjthompson]

I used to own a copy of Mrs. Grieve's book. I wonder if I still have it with all the moves and boxes and whatnot?

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Looove the bloodroot. Creepy. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I have it in two volumes, but I love that it's now available online, too--makes it easy to refer people to it. It's a great book! I hope are able to find it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

yeah :D