purple periwinkle

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

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we're all used to Periwinkle.  it's all over the Grove, a ground cover that though exotic can be tolerated for its pretty little flowers.  it's so familiar it even has a colour named after it, though sometimes it comes in white:

   

most gardens in which it can be found have both. 

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Zöe Wadsworth Park

there's one patch of it, though, that comes in a shade always favoured by an eccentric great aunt:

   
Vinca minor

I am incapable of going past it without looking out for these splashes of purple, and when I see them I am reminded of her.  it is comforting, in an odd sort of way. 

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[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

but say "purple periwinkle" out loud a couple of times.  doesn't it remind you of a certain song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_People_Eater), or is that just me?. 

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

Nice shots ....we have some of these in the yard, and they are so welcomed in the spring.
The lilac bush in the backyard always reminds me of my mother, as she planted it when I was a little girl.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

it's good to have a living reminder of family. 

but now I have a completely different problem: that Purple People Eater song is stuck in my head.  so now I want to know: did anybody ever lay down reggae tracks for it? 

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

Hehehehhehe....no idea---and frankly, I'm not up for checking, b/c I do not want that song stuck in my head, too; reggae version or not ;D

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

that's easy for you to say, you're not the one who has to live with being stuck with it :).  but it could be worse: at least only one of us is in that predicament. 

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

Heh....actually, after first reading this, was trying to even remember how the Purple People Eater song went, and ended up remembering "Great big Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts...." instead! Which is infinitely worse! ;)

thie missing link

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

it's here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_People_Eater). 

go ahead and click it.  I dare you :)

Re: thie missing link

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

(ayeeeeeee!)

Eccentric Great Aunts

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, she certainly was eccentric. She used to write all her letters in purple ink. Three Husbands! Every Christmas she would send us a big box of blouses (all in her large size, none of us could wear them). And she loved dogs - always took road trips with her dogs, and saved them the best part of her steak dinners...I think she was ahead of her time - what a GREAT aunt!

Cousin Betsy

re: Eccentric Great Aunts

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

I knew that anybody in the family who looked at that image would recognise that shade of purple at once. 

there are, of course, a gazillion AJ stories, most of them hilarious.  without her the world is a much less interesting place, though quite possibly a safer and saner one (both latter attributes highly overrated IMHO).