Heal All Flowers – A Lichen – and a Squeeze Cat
Join Green Thumb Sundays Prunella vulgaris
This is a Eurasian alien often found in lawns. It is a member of the mint family and tea / gargle made from the leaves is/was used to treat sore throats and mouth sores. In China a tea made from the flowering plant was considered ‘cooling’ and used to treat ‘heat’ in the liver. The plant contains the diuretic compound ursolic acid and is used to treat kidney aliments.
I don’t know about heated liver except it’s best cooked with onions. And as far as a diuretic goes – nothing beats a pot of strong coffee.
And now for something completely different.
Lichen Wallpaper
What do you get when you mix algae and fungus? I got another desktop background
More? How about tacking up a cat on your desktop?
I couldn’t resist posting this photo of my daughter’ssqueeze cat. Poor Mavie was ‘raised by’ my youngest daughter when both were toddlers. She used to take poor Mavie to bed and lay on him so he couldn’t escape. Now he isn’t happy until someone gives him a big squeeze.
If you think he’s cute enough the image is linked to a larger image suitable to use as desktop wallpaper. You can’t squeeze him but he’ll be happy enough as your cat background.
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September 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
love your pictures my fav is the lichen
September 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Wonderful photography–even the weird one featuring your digit disease in the earlier post.
Aiyana
September 28th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
The lichens are their own little world – just love it!
May 10th, 2009 at 8:41 am
OMG, your site is like talking to the Gods. Beautiful, sweet, funny and soulful. Thank you for sharing such loveliness and sending such good energy into the world.
Every picture reflects your own deep love of what you are looking at. I can really feel it and I’m sure everyone else does too.
It’s really beautiful.