tansy

[asakiyume]

All the tansy in my yard had flopped over, so I cut it way, way back and turned some of it into a door wreath. My front door gets BAKED BY THE SUN. Seriously, the healing angel and I have talked about the possibility of using it, somehow, for electricity or power generation. But anyway. This means the tansy wreath will . . . not freeze-dry, but the opposite. Flash bake?

Later in the day, the healing angel was going upstairs (the stairs are right by the door) and said, "I smell an intense smell of tomatoes."

Now we know what tansy (which has a pretty unique and powerful smell when it isn't baking) smells like when it's baking.

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Have you read Ruth M. Arthur's A Candle in Her Room? Tansy always makes me think of that.

I'm very impressed by your wreath-making, BTW. That's lovely. And highly competent.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I haven't! How does tansy figure in the story?

(And thank you! I am a rank amateur, but it's fun to play around.)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

The tansy has a mystical, witchy association with an Evil Doll.

I loved the novel as a girl, and so did many girls I knew. Reading it later I found the writing clumsy on a sentence/paragraph level. But the characters and their trajectory were still compelling.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

OMG, now I'm thinking maybe I **did** read it! Checking on title…

YES! I remember this cover!!



THAT WAS A TERRIFYING BOOK!

I only remember being scared by it and that the doll was terribly manipulative--and does tansy work for evil or good? (I can't remember) It *ought* to work for good, but….

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

My best recollection about the tansy was that it was a mystical preservative of some sort-- that the doll initially found surrounded by it in a box under the floor.