Tiny Dancer

by Connie Handscomb

Title

Tiny Dancer

Artist

Connie Handscomb

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Photograph - Photography - Fine Art

Description

Learn to dance, or the angels won't know what to do with you.
~ Augustine

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Oxalis (Shamrock; common wood sorrel;wood sour;cuckoo's meet; sleeping beauty; alleluia)

Oxalis acetosella ; violacea; oregana .... and more ....

Family : Oxalidaceae (wood sorrel)

The delicate oxalis is can be found in the shade of woodlands and forests of North America, Europe, Asia, and north Africa. It belongs to the wood sorrel family. The wood sorrel is an edible "weed". The aboriginals chewed on wood sorrel to banish thirst on long trips, for sore throats and mouth sores, for cramps, fever, and nausea. They also cooked with it (this wild edible plant has a sour, almost lemony flavour). The leaves are still used in sauces and salads. It was a popular pot herb during the reign of Henry VIII.

In the mid-1600's, Nicholas Culpeper advised the use of the small bell-shaped flowering plant for contagious sicknesses, and it is still used today for a number of maladies.

The Oxalis Acetosella is considered to be the �true� shamrock, dating back to 385 - 464. The Druids thought it was a mystic symbol associated with the Celtic sun wheel: the Celtic name for little clover is seanrog, which became shamrog ... and eventually shamrock. It is said it will attract leprechauns to your home. .

Sources:
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers Western Reg. [R. Spellenberg]
Culpeper's Color Herbal [Ed. D.Potterton]

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This tiny bloom was just beginning to open its gentle swirl of dangling petals, ready to swish and sway like a ballroom dancer's gown ..... ready to dance into spring.

Captured in natural light; unedited; uncropped .. nature in all its natural splendour :)

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♥ Heartfelt Gratitude to Wild Flowers for featuring this image

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April 1st, 2016

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