Queen Anne's Lace

"Legend has it that Queen Anne, the wife of King James I, was challenged by her friends to create lace as beautiful as a flower. While making the lace, she pricked her finger, and it’s said that the purple-red flower in the center of Queen Anne’s Lace represents a droplet of her blood. Also called Wild Carrot (since Queen Anne’s Lace is the wild progenitor of today’s carrot), Bishop’s Lace or Bird’s Nest (for the nest-like appearance of the bright white and rounded flower in full bloom), in the language of flowers, Queen Anne’s Lace represents sanctuary."
From teleflora

My gardens are infested with Queen Anne's Lace. It is incredibly difficult to control. The tap root is quite strong and if the entire root isn't removed, another plant will appear. The flower self seeds and one plant can have hundreds of progeny. This year, the Queen Anne's Lace won. At least it's pretty.

All photos property of Erin Wallace

Thank you Beth for telling me about rollip.com. The filters are amazing and for a gal who doesn't own photoshop it's great to finally be able to see what these great edits would do to my pictures. Go try it out if you haven't already!

Snow Storm

The kids have a snow day today. Throughout the day yesterday, it snowed and snowed and snowed.


Can you see Saint Francis's nose?



Snow on the Queen Anne's Lace








My son on top of the stone pillar across the street freezing his bum off



People seem to be fond of taking pictures of their feet. Here's my "my feet and jeans are covered with snow" feet picture.

Wherever you are, I hope you are warm. If you don't want to be warm, come to Ohio - the whole state is a big, white expanse!