Blood on the queen's lace

[asakiyume]

I discovered this freaky Queen Anne's lace blossom growing beside a very-little-traveled road. It's the sort of thing that would be used in augury, a prophecy that can't bode well. As stillnotbored remarked, little-traveled roads are great places to dispose of inconvenient bodies. The blossom is proclaiming that the truth will out?



And here are my favorites, the foxtail grasses, golden macro-paramecia, playing in the sun.



ETA: Nope, not for real--see next entry. If only the spray painter knew how well their prank succeeded!

Comments

[pameladean]

Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ!

I really love the photo of the foxtail grasses.

P.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I had the exact same thought!

And there does sit my false sister, Anne
With a hey ho and a bonny o
Who drowned me for the sake of a man
The swans swim so bonny o

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I was wondering to sovay whether maybe the odd flower like this are what inspired the notion/legend that flowers will out a murder. I mean, it seems like a natural idea, when you see a red flower that should be white.

Then again, maybe it's just spray paint (http://asakiyume.livejournal.com/801710.html?thread=20744366#t20744366). I'll try to find out.

[pameladean]

There's a scary amount of literary reference of this sort.

Now I wonder if Shakespeare was thinking about the ballads.

P.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Exactly --the very grasses and flowers will testify!

And yeah, the foxtail grass always makes me so happy, when I see it.