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Oh, the summer time is coming
And the leaves are sweetly turning
And the wild mountain thyme
Blooms across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go
If you will not go with me
I will surely find another
To pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All across the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go
-The Byrds
Design 9 of 2011
Seen from the doorway into the living room, Lavender & Thyme has a very inviting living area for the guests to enjoy before sitting down for breakfast.
This Western vacation was a year ago, and I am reliving the trip by posting various photos on the
one-year anniversary of the day they were taken. I can only wish I were actually here again.
Ok now, if you've read the title, you'll be thinking, 'what is she on about?'
Let me explain!
A couple of weeks ago, we went to my daughte's house for dinner...I asked what could I bring and she said a salad, they always ask me to bring salads, because they call me the salad queen lol...they are the dessert queens!
If ever you invite me for dinner, don't ask me to make dessert because apart from pavlovas...desserts aren't my specialty!
I took this picture to show you that I really do get hearts everywhere and every day!
I use thyme as one of the herbs in my salads (I love using fresh herbs) and I must've had some on my hands because when I covered the bowl with the alfoil, I noticed the two tiny petals (the mouth) formed a perfect heart on the foil.......what are the chances of that happening? lol
Come on all you mathematicians out there...statistics please!
This time of year, there's nothing much on tv so last night I decided to play...what you see here is the end result!
I hope you see the fun side to this!...I had to do something...the quality of the pic, wasn't to my satisfaction!
With love
Nat:)
Ps I also have photos of other hearts (which I won't bore you with) like, a piece of onion in my salad...a small piece of my fried egg (the whites) which looked like they'd been cut by a cookie cutter...a piece of tuna (in my tuna salad) and the list goes on! :))
For a sweet, tangy Spring morning - on toast, pancakes or brioche. More on What's For Lunch, Honey?.
This is my indoor garden. More pictures and instructions for making those labels for plants is in my blog Tassike
walking down from the acropolis at ancient selge, birsen and our little tour guide stopped to pick some thyme to make tea,,,
Ancient Selge.....(in Greek Σελγη) was an important city in Pisidia, on the southern slope of Mount Taurus, modern Antalya Province, Turkey, at the part where the river Eurymedon River (Turkish: Köprüçay)forces its way through the mountains towards the south. The town was believed to be a Greek colony, for Strabo[1] states that it was founded by Spartans, but adds the somewhat unintelligible remark that previously it had been founded by Calchas. The acropolis of Selge bore the name of Kesbedion.[2] The district in which the town was situated was extremely fertile, producing abundance of oil and wine, but the town itself was difficult of access, being surrounded by precipices and beds of torrents flowing towards the Eurymedon and Cestrus (today Aksu), and requiring bridges to make them passable. In consequence of its excellent laws and political constitution, Selge rose to the rank of the most powerful and populous city of Pisidia, and at one time was able to send an army of 20,000 men into the field. Owing to these circumstances, and the valour of its inhabitants, for which they were regarded as worthy kinsmen of the Spartans, the Selgians were never subject to any foreign power, but remained in the enjoyment of their own freedom and independence. When Alexander the Great passed through Pisidia (333 BC), Selge sent an embassy to him and gained his favour and friendship.[3] At that time they were at war with Termessos. At the period when Achaeus had made himself master of Western Asia, Selge were at war with Pednelissus, which was besieged by them; and Achaeus, on the invitation of Pednelissus, sent a large force against Selge (218 BC). After a long and vigorous siege, the Selgians, being betrayed and despairing of resisting Achaeus any longer, sent deputies to sue for peace, which was granted to them on the following terms: they agreed to pay immediately 400 talents, to restore the prisoners of Pednelissus, and after a time to pay 300 talents in addition.[4] We now have for a long time no particulars about the history of Selge; in the 5th century AD Zosimus[5] calls it indeed a little town, but it was still strong enough to repel a body of Goths. It is strange that Pliny does not notice Selge, for we know from its coins that it was still a flourishing town in the time of Hadrian; and it is also mentioned in Ptolemy[6] and Hierocles. Independently of wine and oil, the country about Selge was rich in timber, and a variety of trees, among which the storax was much valued from its yielding a strong perfume. Selge was also celebrated for an ointment prepared from the iris root. The remains of the city consist mainly of parts of the encircling wall and of the acropolis. A few traces have survived of the gymnasium, the stoa, the stadium and the basilica. There are also the outlines of two temples, but the best conserved monument is the theater, restored in the 3rd century AD. Selge was the seat of a bishop; it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
A little late in the season and it's way too hot to keep the herbs alive outside, so we're doing an indoor herb garden. We'll have grow lights to help out and hopefully have useable herbs all winter.
Pieced by Terri Hulse. Quilted by Jessica's quilting studio. Pantograph - oriental flowers (light) from Designs by Vicki
Pieced by Terri Hulse. Quilted by Jessica's quilting studio. Pantograph - oriental flowers (light) from Designs by Vicki
Another advantage of the mild winter is that our thyme is still growing outside. So fresh thyme in the potato and parsnip gratin. Yum!
Variegated Thyme of Hell’s garden. Here’s another historical herb with more uses than I can possibly list without writing an entire article....or book. Most people know it as a culinary plant but it has also been burned, sprinkled, brewed, stuffed into objects, bathed in, anointed with, carried, hung, hidden, planted, woven, distilled… just to name a few. I have read that it was used during mummification in ancient Egypt and means either basically ‘courage’ or ‘to fumigate or smoke’. It has tons of medicinal uses and is associated with fairies.
Lamiaceae